CELEBRATION

Balloon Dog
1995–1998

oil on canvas 
102 x 143 inches
259.1 x 363.2 cm

  • Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jeff Koons, July 18 – September 16, 2001

    Basel, Switzerland. Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012

  • Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons Ingenieur du desir," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (France), September 1997, p. 44 (color ill. p. 44)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 37, 108 (color ill. pp. 36-37)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 16, 400, 507, 588 (color ill. 425)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p.12 (color ill. p. 12)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist. Jeff Koons: The Conversation Series. Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2009. [First draft] p. 46 [illustrated in b&w]

    Andreas Tölke, "Gleichgewicht der Kräfte," Build, March 2011 (color ill. p. 52)

    Olivia Nachle, "Koons Para Menores," TRIP, December 25, 2011, p. 52 http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/trip/koons-para-menores

    Ethan Wagner and Suzanne Modica, Politics is Personal: Stonescape Guide to Exhibition2011 (Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, 2011), p. 24

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 138, 204 (color ill. pp. 138-139)

Boy with Pony
1995–2008

oil on canvas 
136 1/2 x 107 inches
346.7 x 271.8 cm 

  • Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015. 

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 – October 16, 2016

  • Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: Ten Years Later," Flash Art (Milan) 30, no. 195 (Summer 1997), pp. 107, 108 (color ill., work in progress at studio; ill., study for final painting)

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons," W Magazine, April 2000, (color ill. p. 400, work in progress)

    Glenn McNatt, "Pop with No Apologies," The Sun, April 9, 2005 (color ill. p. 1D)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Koons & McCartney," (Text in German) Monopol (Germany), June 2006 (color ill. p. 86, work in progress at studio)

    Tatjana Rosenstein, “Bad Boy der Kunstszene,” Artinvestor, Germany, no. 3 (June 2006) (color ill. in production p. 58)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 16, 398, 598 (color ill. p. 419) 

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp 49, 109, both as '1995-2007'

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012 (ill. p. 103)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 158, 184, 205 (color ill. p. 159)

    Bill Cunningham, “On the Street: Big Bloom,” The New York Times, June 29, 2014, ST4 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/fashion/bill-cunningham-big-bloom.html?searchResultPosition=1

    Carol Vogel, “A 36-Hour Jeff Koons Marathon at the Whitney,” The New York Times, October 3, 2014, C22 (color ill., Whitney Retrospective installation partial view)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 56, Whitney Retrospective installation detail with portrait of Jeff Koons)

    Henri-Francois Debailleux, "Jeff Koons: Faiseur d’icônes," Text in French) L'oeil (Paris) 674 (December 2014) (color ill. p. 4, Whitney installation)

    Fabien Simode, "Mes assistants m'aident a mettre en oeuvre ma vision," Text in French) L'oeil (Paris) 674 (December 2014), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45, Whitney installation)

    Anne Breucha, Die Kunst der Postproduktion: Jeff Koons in Seinen interviews (Wilhelm Fink, 2014) 

    Lavrador, Judicaël, “Jeff Koons: génie ou imposteur?” Beaux Arts editions, November 2014. p. 136

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 145, 288 (color ill. p. 145, pl. 90)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 153, 300 (color ill. p. 153, pl. 90)

    Silvia Neri, "Jeff Koons: la grande retrospettiva al Pompidou," Artribune, January 7, 2015 (color ill. installation view) https://www.artribune.com/report/2015/01/jeff-koons-la-grande-retrospettiva-al-pompidou/

    Marco Enrico Giacometti, “Arriva al Guggenheim di Bilbao la monumentale retrospettiva di Jeff Koons. Tante foto dalla preview della mostra che apre al pubblico questa settimana,” Artribune, June 8, 2015 (color ill. Guggenheim Bilbao installation)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 155, 300 (color ill. p. 155, pl. 91)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 107 (color ill. p. 107)

    Magdalena Zawadzka, "Współpraca roku! Louis Vuitton I... Jeff Koons," Harper's Bazaar Poland, April 11, 2017 

    Diana Cosmin, "louis Vuitton colaboreaza cu cel mai bine cotat artist contemporan, Jeff Koons," Fine Society (Romania), April 12, 2017 https://finesociety.ro/jeff-koons-si-louis-vuitton/

    Sarah Kent, "Jeff Koons: Now, Newport Street Gallery," The Arts Desk, May 26, 2016 (color ill.)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016) pp. 58, 82 (color ill. p. 59; color ill. p. 82)

    Jeon Eun-ji, "Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons," Handmaker (Korea), November 5, 2021 (color ill. by Fred Romero) http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11883

Bracelet
1995–1998

oil on canvas 
104 3/8 x 139 3/4 inches 
265.1 x 355 cm

  • Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jeff Koons, July 18 – September 16, 2001

    Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

  • Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51, Zurich 1997, pp. 74-75 (color ill. pp. 74-75, original photograph for painting)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 33, 43, 85, 108 (color ill. pp. 32-33)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 97 (color ill. p. 97)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), p. 66 (color ill. pp. 66-67), p. 99, all as '1996'

    Rachel Wolff, "A Few More Little Pieces," Artnews, Summer 2008, p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 417, 588 (color ill. p. 417)

    Rachel Wolff, "A Few More Little Pieces," Artnews, Summer 2008 (color ill. p. 39)

    Monopol: Special Jeff Koons (Berlin), 2012 (color ill. p. 9)

    Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 11, 14, 86, 89, 92, 114 (color ill. p. 89, fig. 4; color ill. pp. 116-117

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 34

Bread with Egg
1995–1997

oil on canvas 
128 x 108 inches 
325.1 x 274.3 cm

Cake
1995–1997

oil on canvas 
125 3/8 x 116 3/8 inches 
318.5 x 295.6 cm 

  • Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10,1997- July 21,1999

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 - October 2, 2012

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 - October 19, 2014

  • Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 76 (color ill. p. 76)

    David Rimanelli, “Jeff Koons, A Studio Visit: It’s My Party,” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997) (color ill. p. 114, work in progress at studio)

    Laurie Attias, "A Kinder, Gentler Koons," ARTnews, no. (March 1998) p. 160 (color ill.)

    Alexander Smoltczyk, "Malen nach Zahlen," (Text in Germany) Der Spiegel Kultur Extra, April 1998 (color ill. p. 13)

    David Bowie, "Super-Banalism and the Innocent Salesman," Modern Painters 11, no. 1 (Spring 1998) (color ill. p. 33)

    "Flash Art XXXI Years. Three Decade Inside Art," Flash Art, n. 201 (Milan) (Summer 1998) p. 89 (color ill. p. 88)

    Jim Cohan, Hands On: A Coloring Book, exh. cat. (New York: 242 Partners, L.P., 1998)

    BurkhardRiemschneider and Uta Grosenick, ed., Art at the Turn of the Millennium, exh. cat. (Cologne 1999), p. 289) (color ill. p. 289)

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin (confirm), Suhrkamp, 1999 (color ill. p. 35, studio installation of magazine with painting)

    Interview with Jeff Koons, Intervista 4, no. 22 (April-May 2000), p. 22 (color ill. p. 22)

    Marina Fokidis, "Vita: Istruzioni Per L'Uso," (Text in Italian) Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (April-May 2000) (color ill. p. 85)

    Andrew Graham-Dixon, "The Inflated World of Jeff Koons," The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, September 17, 2000 (ill., p. 18)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 43, 85

    Jeff Koons von Rainald Goetz (Basel: Theater Basel, 2002) (color ill. p. 25, work in progress at studio)

    Carol Vogel, “Two Pop Beauties Face Off, and Warhol’s ‘Liz’ Wins” in The New York Times, May 11, 2005, p.  B4

    Julie Brener, "Art Talk: Those Lips, Those Eyes," ArtNews, December 2005, p. 40 (color ill., Stella McCartney gown)

    Selling Masterpieces (New York: Sotheby's, 2005), p. 10 (color ill. p. 9)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Koons & McCartney," (Text in German) Monopol (Germany), June/July 2006 (color ill. p. 84)

    Ken Johnson, “The ‘Vision’ Thing: Inaugural ICA sets its sights on contemporary consciousness,” Boston Sunday Globe, December 10, 2006, pp. N18-19 

    "Jeff Koons," Wallpaper, October 2007, p. 345

    Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, exh. cat. (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007) (color ill.)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 13 (color ill. p. 13, fig. 4)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 16, 389, 588 (color ill. p. 389)

    Blitzen-Benz Bang - Daimler Art Collection: Mixed Media, Sculptures, Commissioned Works, exh. cat., ed. by Renate Wiehager (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009), p. 314

    Claudia Herstatt, "Ich Möchte Begehren Wecken," (Text in German) Weltkunst (Germany), no. 7 (2010) (color ill. p. 120)

    Olivia Nachle, "Koons Para Menores," TRIP, December 25, 2011 http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/trip/koons-para-menores

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012 (color ill. Fondation Beyeler installation)

    Carlotta Lovern Botta, "Koons at the Fondation Beyeler," Vogue Italia, June 2012, online only

    Sarah Douglas, "Private Parts: At Basel’s Beyeler Foundation, Jeff Koons Unveils, Explains New Work," Observer, June 19, 2012 

    “Fondation Beyler presents first Jeff Koons exhibition ever held in a Swiss Museum,” artdaily.org, June 20, 2012 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55318#.T-h03s0XAr0

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012)

    Caws, Mary Ann, "The Modern Art Cookbook" London, 2013, p. 215 illustrated in color

    Béatrice Fontanel, Ma Première Histoire de l'ART, Palette, March 2014

    Tom Simpson, “King of Pop: 35 years of Jeff Koons art-in-pictures,” The Guardian, June 25, 2014 (color ill.) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/25/king-of-pop-30-years-of-jeff-koons-art-in-pictures

    Stephanie Murg, "Jeff Koons' Technicolor takeover of the Whitney Museum," Wallpaper (United Kingdom), June 26, 2014 (color ill., Whitney installation) https://www.wallpaper.com/art/jeff-koons-technicolor-takeover-of-the-whitney-museum

    Katherine Brooks, “Jeff Koons - An Artist, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside Shiny Stainless Steel,” HuffingtonPost, June 27, 2014 (color ill., Whitney installation) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-koons-a-retrospective_n_5538103

    A.M.B., "The world according to Jeff," The Economist (London), July 2, 2014 (color ill.) http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/07/jeff-koons-whitney

    Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill. p. 318)

    Katya Kazakina, "Oversized $30 Million Koons Monkey Heads to Christie’s," Bloomberg, October 2, 2014 (color ill., partial view in background at Whitney installation) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-13/bacon-s-142-million-triptych-sets-record-in-new-york

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 5, Whitney Retrospective installation)

    Judicaël Lavrador, "Jeff Koons Génie ou Imposteur," (Text in French) Beaux Arts éditions, November 2014 (color ill., p. 138, Whitney installation)

    Luther Blissett,, “Les obsessions majeures de Koons,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 30

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 140, 288 (color ill. p. 140, pl. 84)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 148, 300 (color ill. p. 148, pl. 84)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 150, 302 (color ill. p. 150, pl. 85)

    "Jeff Koons se defende de críticas à escultura doada a Paris," Correio Do Povo (Portugal), September 30, 2019 https://www.correiodopovo.com.br/arteagenda/jeff-koons-se-defende-de-cr%C3%ADticas-à-escultura-doada-a-paris-1.368981

    Brian Deines, "Jeff Koons’ Repackaged Childhood Grows Up With ‘Bouquet of Tulips’," Medium, November 18, 2019 (color ill.) https://medium.com/@briandeines/with-bouquet-of-tulips-jeff-koons-repackaged-childhood-grows-up-429e1f87c59d

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste, 2019) (color ill. p. 44; color ill. 45; color ill. 63)

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 88, 124 (color ill. p. 89)

    Jonathan Sawyer, "Jeff Koons Explains His Iconic 'Play-Doh' Sculpture: "It's Not for Perfectionism," Highsnobiety, April 7, 2020 (color ill. Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney installation) https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/jeff-koons-play-doh-sculpture/

    Nelson Galvis, "De los recuerdos," Correo del Caroni (Venezuela), January 16, 2021 (color ill. Newport Street Gallery, London, 2016) https://www.correodelcaroni.com/opinion/8128-de-los-recuerdos

    "Jeff Koons: highest paid artist in the world," Floraviva (Italy), April 14, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.floraviva.it/news/arte-verde/jeff-koons-l-artista-piu-pagato-al-mondo.html

    "Jeff Koons Moves to Pace Gallery, and Other News," Surface Magazine, April 28, 2021 https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/jeff-koons-pace-gallery/

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 116 (color ill. p. 117)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 182, Whitney installation)

    Panagiotis Koustas, "Wear a work by Jeff Koons, you can," Esquire Greece, October 23, 2021 (color ill. by Timothy Clary, Whitney Museum, 2014) https://esquire.com.gr/styl/moda/17395/fora-ki-esu-ena-ergo-tou-jeff-koons-mporeis

    Razmig Bedirian, "Jeff Koons to send sculptures to the Moon for permanent installation," The National News, March 30, 2022 https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/2022/03/30/jeff-koons-to-send-sculptures-to-the-moon-for-permanent-installation/

Cracked Egg
1995–1999

oil on canvas 
128 x 99 5/16 inches
325.1 x 252.3 cm 

  • Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005

    Kiev, Pinchuk Art Centre, Collection Platform 1: Circulation, May 2 – October 2, 2011

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012

  • Veit Loers, "Puppy, Das Herz Jesu," (text in German), Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997) p. 87 (color ill., p. 87, original photograph for painting)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 43, 85, all as "Broken Egg"

    Jeff Koons von Rainald Goetz (Basel: Theater Basel, 2002) (color ill. p. 28)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 93, 153 (color ill. p. 94, as '1995-1997')

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 104, 148 (color ill. p. 104)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2007, p. 436, illustrated in color

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons: The Conversation Series (Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2009), (ill. p. 50)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), pp. 16, 17 (color ill. p. 17, fig. 10)

    Olivia Nachle, "Koons Para Menores," TRIP, December 25, 2011, p. 160 http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/trip/koons-para-menores

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple: Jeff Koons," 20/27, no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 146)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 34

    Chen Qingyang, "UNIQLO will come again, and the artist will take the UT master Jeff Koons. Will it be as popular as KAWS?," Hong Kong 01, September 23, 2021 (color ill. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples installation) https://www.hk01.com/%E4%B8%80%E7%89%A9/679654/uniqlo%E5%86%8D%E4%BE%86%E8%97%9D%E8%A1%93%E5%AE%B6%E8%81%AF%E4%B9%98ut-%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%AB%E7%B4%9Ajeff-koons%E5%88%A5%E6%B3%A8%E6%9C%83%E5%83%8Fkaws%E8%88%AC%E6%90%B6%E6%89%8B

Donkey
1996–1999

oil on canvas 
114 x 179 inches
289.6 x 454.7 cm 

  • Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, December 15, 1999 – May 15, 2000

    Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012

  • Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: Ten Years Later," Flash Art (Milan) 30, no. 195 (Summer 1997), pp. cover, 7, 102-108, p. 102 (color ill. p. 102, work in progress at studio)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), pp. 16, 25, 38, 46 (color ill. pp. 24-25, as '1995-1999')

    Jeffrey Deitch, "Jeff Koons Celebration al di la dello specchio: Viaggio nel mondo Koons," Text in Italian) Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (April-May 2000) (color ill. p. 80)

    Dimitri G. Antonitsis, "A Great Day! A Photo Conversation with Jeff Koons," in The Contemporary (Greek) City, ed., Yannis Aesopos, Yorgos Simeoforidis (Athens: Metapolis Press, 2001) (ill. p. 298, blue and white image)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 90, 153, 155 (color ill. p. 90, as '1995-1998')

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 28, 76, 99 (color ill. pp. 76-77) all as '1995-1998'

    Monument to Now, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 230 (color ill. p. 230)

    John Stourton, Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 (London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2007) (color ill, p. 405, DESTE installation image from Monument to Now exhibition)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 398 (color ill. p. 426)

    Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins (New York: Abrams Books/Art21, Inc., 2009), p. 101

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009) p. 23 (color ill. p. 23, fig. 15)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 164, 205 (color ill. pp. 164-165)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 215 (color ill. p. 216-17)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 215 (color ill. p. 216-17)

Building Blocks
1996–2009

oil on canvas 
134 3/8 x 108 1/2 inches
341.3 x 275.6 cm

  • Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4, 2004 – April 10, 2005

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 – October 16, 2016

  • Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 68 (color ill. of photo for painting)

    Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: Ten Years Later," Flash Art (Milan) 30, no. 195 (Summer 1997), p. 103 (color ill. p. 103)

    Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons Ingenieur du desir," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (France), September 1997, pp. 4, 42-49, cover

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 70 (color ill. p. 70, work in progress)

    Glenn McNatt, "Pop with No Apologies," The Sun, April 9, 2005, pp. 1D, 5D (color ill.)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Door to Door: A Visit to Jeff Koons' Studio," db-art.info, June 2005 (color ill. p. 86)

    "Giants Face to Face," Domus, October 2007 (color ill.)

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "Atelier de Chelsea: La fabrique Jeff Koons" in "Jeff Koons: Versailles," (French) Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008 (color ill. p. 11, work in progress at studio; color ill. p. 12, work in progress)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 398 (color ill. p. 422)

    Anthony Barzilay Freund, "Made in Chelsea: A Conversation with Jeff Koons" in Sotheby's At Auction, November 9-26, 2009, p. 8, illustrated in color (detail, with the artist) and illustrated in color on the cover(detail, with the artist) 

    Jan Blanc and Florence Jaillet, Dans l'atelier des artistes: Les coulisses de la creation de Leonard de Vinci a Jeff Koons (Beaux Arts editions, 2011) (color ill. pp. 258-259, work in progress)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons is Back!" Vanity Fair no. 647 (July 2014), p. 95

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France), (October 2014), p. 142

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 138, 290 (color ill. p. 138, pl. 82)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 146, 300 (color ill. p. 146, pl. 82)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 159 (color ill. p. 158)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 159 (color ill. p. 158)

    Jeff Koons pour les enfants (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014) (color ill. p. 9)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 148, 303 (color ill. p. 148, pl. 83)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 56, 82, 83, (color ill. p. 57; color ill. p. 82)

Party Hat
1995–1997

oil on canvas 
114 3/8 x 127 5/8 inches 
290.5 x 324.2 cm 

  • Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10,1997 – July 21,1999

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, October 7, 2001 – January 6, 2002; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, March 16 – June 3, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 28 – October 20, 2002; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, February 15 – September 7, 2003

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012

  • Ingrid Sischy, "The Cat is Out of the Bag," Interview, February 1997, pp. 90-91 (color ill. work in progress at studio as illustration)

    David Rimanelli, “Jeff Koons, A Studio Visit: It’s My Party,” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997), p. 112 (color ill. p. 114, work in progress at studio)

    Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons Ingenieur du desir," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (France), September 1997 (color ill., model)

    Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 78 (color ill., original photograph of maquette)

    Laurie Attias, "A Kinder, Gentler Koons," ARTnews, no. (March 1998) (color ill. p. 160)

    Alexander Smoltczyk, "Malen nach Zahlen," (Text in Germany) Der Spiegel Kultur Extra, April 1998 (color ill. pp. 10-11)

    David Bowie, "Super-Banalism and the Innocent Salesman," Modern Painters 11, no. 1 (Spring 1998) (color ill. p. 31, detail)

    "Flash Art XXXI Years. Three Decade Inside Art," Flash Art, n. 201 (Milan) (Summer 1998) (color ill. p. 89)

    Judd Tully, "Deconstructing Jeffrey," Art & Auction, December 1998 (color ill., p. 38, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica installation)

    Jim Cohan, Hands On: A Coloring Book, exh. cat. (New York: 242 Partners, L.P., 1998) (color ill., detail)

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin, Suhrkamp, 1999 (color ill. p. 35, studio installation

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons", W 29, no. 4 (April 2000), pp. 396-402 (color ill., p. 400, Broad installation)

    Matthew Collings, "Jeff Koons" in Writers on Artists in association with Modern Painters (New York: DK Publishing Inc., 2001) (color ill. p. 47, The Broad Art Foundation installation)

    Stephanie Barron, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), p. 28 (color ill. p. 28)

    Christine Temin, "A blur of life and art with Jeff Koons at MFA," Boston Globe, July 24, 2002, p. F8

    Jeff Koons von Rainald Goetz (Basel: Theater Basel, 2002) (color ill. p. 25, work in progress at studio)

    Max (Hamburg, Germany), (February 2005), p. 139, (color ill. p. 31)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paradis no. 1 (Summer 2006) (color ill. p. 26)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 16, 388, 588 (color ill. p. 388)

    Olivia Nachle, "Koons Para Menores," TRIP, December 25, 2011, p. 168 http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/trip/koons-para-menores

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 33, 34, 140, 184, 204 (color ill. p. 141)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), p. p. 86

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 59 (color ill. p. 59)

    The Broad Foundations Entrepreneurship for the Public Good 2015-2016 (Los Angeles: The Broad Art Foundations, 2016) (color ill. p. 106)

    Igor Kavcic, "Dan za umetnost," Gorenjski Glass (Slovenia), February 13, 2020 (color ill. Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation) http://www.gorenjskiglas.si/article/20200213/C/200219922/1257

Pink Bow
1995–1997

oil on canvas 
106 1/2 x 136 3/8 inches
270.5 x 346.4 cm

  • Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties, February 1996 – February 1997

    Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jeff Koons, July 18 – September 16, 2001

    Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012

  • Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties: The Scharpff Collection at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Uwe M. Schneede, exh. cat. (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz Verlag, 1996) (color ill p. 57, front and back cover)

    Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, No. 50/51 (December 1997) (color ill. p. 81)

    Mary Anne Staniszewski, "Better Late," Artforum, May 1997 (color ill. p. 65) 

    David Rimanelli, “Jeff Koons, A Studio Visit: It’s My Party,” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997) (color ill. cover)

    Chrissie Isles and Laurie Anderson, "Restrospeculative: Jeff Koons Reveals Another Side of Himself and His Work," Hugo Boss: Fascination, Summer 1998 (color ill. p. 3) 

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin (confirm), Suhrkamp, 1999 (ill. pp. 32-33, Artform cover with painting)

    Rolf-E Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), p. 43 (color ill. p. 42) 

    Hans Rudolf Reust,"Hypermental," Artforum (Summer 2001) https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/200106/hypermental-48561

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 29, 108 (color ill. pp. 28-29)

    Anselm Wagner, "Einfach ubertrieben," Frame (Germany), January-March 2002 (color ill. p. 80) 

    "Simply Exaggerated," Glamour Magazine, January 10, 2002 (color ill. p. 80) 

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 93 (color ill. p. 93)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 72, 99 (color ill. pp. 72-73), all as '1995-1998'

    Julie Brener, "Art Talk: Those Lips, Those Eyes," ArtNews, December 2005, p. 40 

    Cheryl Kaplan, “Koons & McCartney [interview],” Monopol, no. 3 (June/July 2006) (color ill. pp. 84-85)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth, (Cologne, 2008), pp. 395, 588 (color ill. p. 395)

    Was Ist Gute Kunst? ed. Wolfram Volker (Ostfildern: Germany, 2009) (color ill. p. 14, fig. 2)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 13

    Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan), no. 125, January 2010 (color ill. p. 23)

    Olivia Nachle, "Koons Para Menores," TRIP, December 25, 2011, p. 166 http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/trip/koons-para-menores

    Claudia Herstatt, "Ich Möchte Begehren Wecken," (Text in German) Weltkunst (Germany), no. 7 (2010), p. 120 (color ill. pp. 118-119)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014) p. 150 (color ill. p. 150, fig. 17, cover of Artforum)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014); p. 158 (color ill. p. 158, fig. 17, cover of Artforum)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 160 (color ill. p. 160, fig. 17, cover of Artforum)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 59 (color ill. p. 59) 

    Shana Gozansky, My Art Book of Happiness (London: Phaidon Press, 2020) (color ill. p. 9; color ill. p. 40)

Plate Set
1995–1998

oil on canvas 
116 1/8 x 125 3/4 inches
295 x 319.4 cm

  • Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jeff Koons, July 18 – September 16, 2001

    Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012 

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022

  • Laurie Attias, "A Kinder, Gentler Koons," ARTnews, no. (March 1998) (color ill. p. 161)

    Alexander Smoltczyk, "Malen nach Zahlen," (Text in Germany) Der Spiegel Kultur Extra, April 1998 (color ill. p. 13) (color ill. cover)

    Chrissie Isles and Laurie Anderson, "Restrospeculative: Jeff Koons Reveals Another Side of Himself and His Work," Hugo Boss: Fascination, Summer 1998(color ill.)

    David Bowie with Jeff Koons, "Super-Banalism and the Innocent Salesman," Modern Painters 11, no. 1 (Spring 1998) (color ill., in background)

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin (confirm), Suhrkamp, 1999 (color ill. p. 34)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 34, 108 (color ill. p. 35)

    Patricia Grzonka, "Puppy is back," (text in German) Profil, no. 30 (July 2001) (color ill. p. 113)

    Jeff Koons von Rainald Goetz (Basel: Theater Basel, 2002) (color ill. p. 23)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 96, (color ill. p. 96)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), p. 74 (color ill pp. 74-75)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), p. 391 (color ill. p 391)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple: Jeff Koons," 20/27 no. 05 (2011), p. 128 (color ill. p. 128)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 146, 184, 204 (color ill. p. 147)

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012 (color ill.)

    "Play with Jeff Koons' Giant Inflatable Statue," Detik Hot (Indonesia), November 24, 2021 (color ill.) https://hot.detik.com/culture/d-5825325/main-main-dengan-patung-tiup-raksasa-jeff-koons 

    Dario Pappalardo, "Jeff Koons e gli sceicchi dell'arte," La Repubblica (Italy), November 26, 2021 https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2021/11/25/news/koons_qatar_arte_doha_mostra-327810772/ 

    Song Peifen, ""Lost in America": A Visual Biography of Jeff Koons," The Financial Times Chinese, December 2, 2021 (color ill.) http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001094695?full=y&archive

    Benjamin Locoge, "Jeff Koons, La World Compagnie," Paris Match (France), n°3789 (December 16 - 22, 2021) https://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Art/Jeff-Koons-Les-objets-sont-mieux-prepares-que-nous-a-survivre-1776419 

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 (color ill.) https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/ 

    Taylor Dafoe, "For 25 Years, Jeff Koons Has Been Locked In a Legal Battle With an Italian Man Over a Sculpture He Insists He Didn’t Create," Artnet News, March 11, 2022 (color ill., Qatar Museum installation) https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-serpents-italian-collector-2083584 

Hanging Heart
1995-1998

oil on canvas 
131 x 100 inches 
332.7 x 254 cm 

  • Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, December 15, 1999 – May 15, 2000

    Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jeff Koons, July 18 – September 16, 2001

    Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

    Geneva, The Museum of Art and History of the city of Geneva, Urs Fischer - False Friends, April 27 – July 17, 2016

  • Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997) (color ill. cover)

    Chrissie Iles, Fascination, Hugo Boss, Summer 1998 (color ill. inside cover; color ill. p. 1)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), pp. 39, 46 (color ill. p. 39) 

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 26, 108 (color ill. p. 27)

    Alessandra Mammi, "Dalla Staller alle stelle," (Text in Italian) L'espresso, no. 23 (June 5, 2003) (ill. p. 127)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 68, 99 (color ill. pp. 68-69)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003, pp. 91, 153 (color ill. p. 91)

    Harry Bellet, "Pinault (Simple) Collectionneur," Le Monde 2, April 14, 2006, p. 34 (color ill. p. 34)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 397, 588 (color ill. p. 397)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 13 (color ill. p. 13, fig. 5)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons: The Conversation Series (Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2009), p. 27 (ill. p. 27)

    Sarah Thornton, "Divine Intervention," Artforum, June 22, 2012 (color ill., partial view from Schirn installation) https://www.artforum.com/columns/sarah-thornton-on-jeff-koons-at-the-schirn-kunsthalle-and-liebieghaus-200430/

    "Jeff Koons's New Sculptures- Sexy Contemporary Antiques," The Economist, July 7, 2012

    "Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012) (color ill. pp. 106-107, Schirn Kunsthalle installation)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 150 (color ill. p. 150, fig. 20, Deste Foundation installation)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 158 (color ill. p. 158, fig. 20, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art installation)

    Silvia Neri, "Jeff Koons: la grande retrospettiva al Pompidou," Artribune, January 7, 2015 https://www.artribune.com/report/2015/01/jeff-koons-la-grande-retrospettiva-al-pompidou/

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 160 (color ill. p. 160, fig. 20, Deste Foundation installation)

    Urs Fischer: False Friends, exh. cat. (Greece: DESTE Foundation, 2016), p. 89

Ribbon
1995–1997 / 2010

oil on canvas 
102 x 143 inches 
259.1 x 363.2 cm 

Shelter
1996–1998

oil on canvas 
118 1/8 x 148 1/8 inches
300 x 376.2 cm

  • Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13 – October 2, 2012

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015

  • Vik Muniz, "Eternal Regress," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997) (color ill. p. 63; color ill. 64, detail; color ill. 67)

    Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: Ten Years Later," Flash Art (Milan) 30, no. 195 (Summer 1997), p. 106 (ill., study)

    David Bowie with Jeff Koons, "Super-Banalism and the Innocent Salesman," Modern Painters 11, no. 1 (Spring 1998) (color ill. illustrated on cover in background with portrait of Jeff Koons and David Bowie, Photo by Iman)

    James Reginato, "The Art of Living," W (March 2000), p. 507 (color ill. p. 506, residential installation)

    Fiachra Gibbons, "Shock Art with Horror for All to Enjoy," The Guardian, September 20, 2000 (color ill. p. 7, Royal Academy installation) 

    Susan Corrigan, "Puppy Love," i-D Magazine, September 2000 (color ill. p. 248)

    Norman Rosenthal, Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, exh cat. (London: Royal Academy of Art Publishing, 2000) (color ill. p. 236-237)

    Rolf E. Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), pp. 23, 27 (color ill. p. 23)

    Jane Gang, "Honcho Talks to Jeff Koons," Honcho, April 2001, p. 70 (ill. p. 71)

    Elisabeth Couturier, "Jeff Koons: Son kitsch vaut des millions!" Paris Match (Paris), January 2003 (color ill. p. 5 work in progress at studio)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: An Interview by the Readers of Flash Art," Flash ArtInternational (Milan) 38, no. 240 (January-February 2005), p. 88

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 423, 588 (color ill. pp. 34, 423)

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012 (color ill. Fondation Beyeler installation)

    “Fondation Beyler presents first Jeff Koons exhibition ever held in a Swiss Museum,” artdaily.org, June 20, 2012 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55318#.T-h03s0XAr0

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 162, 205 (color ill. p. 163)

    Benedikt Taschen, The Complete Collector's Editions 1991-present (Italy: Taschen, 2013) (color ill. p. 156, Royal Academy installation)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 66)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 139, 216, 288 (color ill. p. 139, pl. 83)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 147, 224, 300 (color ill. p. 147, pl. 83)

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 159 (color ill. p. 160-161)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 159 (color ill. p. 160-161)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 149, 228, 300 (color ill. p. 149, pl. 84)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 110 (color ill. pp. 110-111)

    Baek ah-young, “Jeff Koons,” Artnow (Issue 20) (Korea), Winter 2017 (color ill. p. 132)

    "Jeff Koons lança coleção de bolsas em parceria com Louis Vuitton," Opovo Online (Brazil), April 11, 2017 (color ill.) https://pause.opovo.com.br/app/lifestyle/2017/04/11/ls,2500/jeff-koons-lancara-colecao-de-bolsas-em-parceria-com-louis-vuitton.shtml

    Diana Cosmin, "louis Vuitton colaboreaza cu cel mai bine cotat artist contemporan, Jeff Koons," Fine Society (Romania), April 12, 2017 https://finesociety.ro/jeff-koons-si-louis-vuitton/

    Ayoung Baek, "World Artist: Jeff Koons," Noblesse Art Now (Korea), November 2017 (color ill. p. 132)

    Federica Minio, "Arte o Plagio? Nuovamente Condannata l'Arte "Appropriativa" di Koons," Collezione da Tiffany (Italy), March 30, 2021 (color ill. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014) https://www.collezionedatiffany.com/koons-plagio-2021/

    Jeon Eun-ji, "Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons," Handmaker (Korea), November 5, 2021 (color ill. by Fred Romero) http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11883

    "W Magazine: Fifty Years Fifty Stories," ed. Sara Moonves, Armand Limnander (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2022) (color ill. p. 84 by Juergen Teller)

Tulips
1995–1998

oil on canvas
111 3/8 x 131 inches
282.9 x 332.7 cm

Play-Doh
1995–2008

oil on canvas
131 1/4 x 111 1/4 inches
333.4 x 282.6 cm

  • Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005

    New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April 7 – June 5, 2004

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 

    Basel, Switzerland, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons. May 13 – October 2, 2012 

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015

  • Thyrza Nicols Goodeve, "Euphoric Enthusiasm: Jeff Koons's Celebration," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 89 (color ill. p. 89)

    Ingrid Sischy, "The Cat is Out of the Bag," Interview, February 1997 (color ill. pp. 94-95)

    Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: Ten Years Later," Flash Art (Milan) 30, no. 195 (Summer 1997), p. 106 (color ill., work in progress at studio)

    Laurie Attias, "A Kinder, Gentler Koons," ARTnews, no. (March 1998) (color ill. p. 161)

    Alexander Smoltczyk, "Malen nach Zahlen," (Text in Germany) Der Spiegel Kultur Extra, April 1998 (color ill. p. 13) (color ill. pp. 10-11)

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons," W Magazine, April 2000 (color ill. p. 400, work in progress) 

    Rolf E. Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), pp. 21, 25 (color ill. p. 21, as '1994-Present')

    "Berlino: Jeff Koons," Vernissage, no. 12 (January 2001) (color ill. cover)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001), pp. 228, 232 (color ill. p. 229)

    Laura Tansini, "Mai dire Kitsch...Sedurre con le immagini," (Text in Italian) ARS, no. 45 (September 2001) (ill. p. 87, partial view, portrait by Todd Eberle)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 44, 113 (color ill. p. 44)

    Chiara Mariani, "Scandaloso Koons," (text in Italian) La Repubblica delle Donne (March 2002) color ill. p. 92)

    Art in America. New York: Brant Art Publications, April 2004, p.6, illustrated in color.

    Linda Yablonsky, "The famous art world agitator find optimism in archetypes of childhood fantasy and adult desire", Art+Auction, March 2004 (color ill. p. 39)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 70, 71, 81, 105, 148 (color ill. p. 70, work in progress at studio; color ill. p. 71, work in progress at studio; color ill. p. 105, as '1994-2004'), as '1994-2004'

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 76, 86 (color ill. p. 2, detail with Jeff; color ill. pl. 27, pp. 77, 86; color ill. pp. 78-79, detail)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Koons & McCartney," (Text in German) Monopol (Germany), June 2006 (color ill. p. 86, studio installation)

    Karen Wright, "Editor's Letter," Modern Painters, June 2006, p. 28.

    Dawn Weinberger, "Toying with Imagination," USA Weekend July 7-9, 2006, p. 10 (color ill. p. 10)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Koons World," W Magazine, November 2006, p. 310 

    Stephanie Seymour, "Art Made in Heaven," Whitewall Magazine, Issue 7 (Fall 2007), p. 130 (color ill. p. 130, detail work in progress)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons (Supercontemporanea series), Milan, 2006, p. 70-71, illustrated in color

    Linda Yablonsky, "The Studio System," Art Auction, (November 2007) (color ill. pp. 192-193, Photo: Jason Schmidt)

    Graham Bader, "Jeff Koons," Artforum, September 2008 (color ill. installation view p. 448)

    Bourdeaux-Martin, Helianthe. “Profile – Dominique Levy.” Whitewall, Winter 2008, p. 42 (installation, 2004 C&M Arts), illustrated in color

    De Wavrin, Isabelle. "L'Entreprise Jeff Koons." Beaux Arts, September 2008, p. 114, illustrated in color (in progress)

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "L'Entreprise Jeff Koons" in Beaux Arts, September 2008, (color ill. p. 114, work. In progress)

    Ute Thon, "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand," Art Kunstmagazin 1 (Germany) (October 2008) p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Helianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, "Profile: Dominique Levy," Whitewall 10 (Winter 2008), p. 42 (color ill. p. 42, C&M Arts installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 86, 115 (color ill. p. 87)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008) pp. 16, 400 (color ill. pp. 20, 399) 

    Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins (New York: Abrams Books/Art21, Inc., 2009), p. 97 (color ill. p. 96)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), pp. 8, 9, 10, 13, 18, 42(color ill. p. 8, fig. 1; color ill. p. 9, fig. 2, work in progress - photo study for the work; color ill. p. 19. fig. 11, detail), all as '1995-Present';

    Andrew Ervin, "'Hulk Elvis' by Jeff Koons," (Book review.) Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2010, online

    Celine Delavaux, Hyperréalisme - Quand l'art dépasse la réalité (France: Editions Palette, 2010) (color ill. p. 134) 

    Olivia Nachle, "Koons Para Menores," TRIP, December 25, 2011, p. 52 http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/trip/koons-para-menores

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple: Jeff Koons," 20/27 N 05, 2011, illustrated in color p. 134

    Philippe Dagen, "Un Jeff Koons en cache toujours un autre," (Text in French) Le Monde (May 14, 2012) (color ill., Fondation Beyeler installation)

    Carlotta Loverni Botta,  "Koons at the Fondation Beyeler," Vogue Italia June 15, 2012, online

    “Fondation Beyler presents first Jeff Koons exhibition ever held in a Swiss Museum,” artdaily.org, June 20, 2012 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55318#.T-h03s0XAr0

    Holger Liebs, "Mr. Koons?" Monopol: Special Jeff Koons, 2012, p. 37


    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 160, 184, 205(color ill. cover, detaill; color ill. p. 161; color ill. back cover, detail)

    Neale Whitaker, "Slightly Surreal," Belle (Australia) (November 2013) (color ill. p. 78, Fondation Beyeler installation, partial view)

    Bill Powers, "The Time Traveler," Muse, Fall 2014, pp. 98, 106 https://models.com/work/muse-magazine-jeff-koons/315104

    Myriam Boutoulle, "Jeff Koons, a star in Paris," (Text in French) Connaissance des Arts, (December 2014) (color ill. p. 71, work in progress at studio)

    Sonya Liu, "Art that Goes Pop," (Text in Mandarin) Kempinski (China), Winter 2014, pp. 26-29.

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 30, 150 (color ill. p. 30; color ill. p. 150, fig. 18, work in progress in the studio)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 34, 37, 158, 300 (color ill. p. 34; color ill. p. 158, fig. 18, work in progress in studio)

    Roland Flamini, "Open Door Policy," Washington Life, June 2015 (color ill. 37)

    Itxaso Belaza, “Jeff Koons al completo, en Guggenheim Bilbao,” Cadenaser.com, June 8, 2015 https://cadenaser.com/emisora/2015/06/08/radio_bilbao/1433774834_907297.html

    Rose Maria Gropp, "Jeff Koons hat eine neue Galerie," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), April 30, 2021 (color ill. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, 2015) https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunstmarkt/der-teuerste-lebende-kuenstler-jeff-koons-hat-eine-neue-galerie-17318851.html

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 32, 33, 34, 160, 300 (color ill. p. 32; color ill. p. 160, fig. 18, work in progress in studio)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 106 (color ill. p. 106)

    Kate Wills, "The cult of cute that Londoners can't resist joining," Evening Standard (UK), August 7, 2019 https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/cult-of-cute-a4206721.html

Balloon Flower
1995–2000

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
113 1/8 x 131 7/8 x 105 1/8 inches
287.3 x 335 x 267 cm

5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)

  • Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, 2000 – 2010 (Blue)

    New York, 7 World Trade Center, May 23, 2006 – October 13, 2018 (Red)

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 8, 2009 (Magenta)

    Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (Yellow)

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13 – October 2, 2012 (Blue)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (Magenta)

  • Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 72 (ill., three production shots), 73 (color ill., original photo of maquette) 

    Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons," Beaux Arts, September 1997, p. 48 (color ill. p. 48, work in progress)

    "Blaues Wunder," Der Tagesspiegel (Germany), February 12, 2000 

    Christina Wendenburg, "Aufgeblasen. Luftballon-Kunst aus poliertem Stahl: Jeff Koons "Balloon Flower" am Postdamer Platz," Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), February 12, 2000, p. 19 (color ill. p. 19) (Blue) 

    Inken Witten, "A shiny Flower for Postsdamer Platz," Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), February 12, 2000 (color ill. p. 19) (Blue) 

    "Flower-Power am Potsdamer Platz," Berliner Zeitung no. 36 (February 12/13, 2000), p. 25 (ill. Potsdamer Platz, detail) (Blue) 

    Thea Herold, "Blaues Wunder," Der Tagesspiegel (Germany), no. 16 963 (February 13, 2000) (ill. Postsdamer Platz installation) (Blue) 

    Anita Wunshmann, "Jeff Koons skulptur "Balloon Flower" wurde auf dem Marlene-Dietrich-Platz aufgestellt," Berliner Zeitung no. 37 (February 14, 2000) (ill. Potsdamer Platz installation, Photo: Wolfgang Neeb)(Blue) 

    Thea Herold, "Ist das nicht alles gigantischer Kitsch, Herr Koons," Der Tagesspiegel (Germany), March 6, 2000 (ill. Postsdamer Platz installation, partial view) (Blue) 

    "Skandal-Künstler Jeff Koons schuf sie, Ballon-Blume fur den Postdamer Platz," (Text in German) April 1999 (color ill., model) 

    Silke Mueller & Stefan Koldehoff, "Was wuerde Picasso dazu sagen," Art, April 2000 (color ill. p. 78, Berlin Potsdamer Platz installation detail; color ill. p. 79, Berlin Potsdamer Platz installation)

    Sascha Lehnartz, "Jeff Koons," (Text in German) Die Zeit (Germany), November 9, 2000

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 42, 81 

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p. 46 (color ill. p. 47) (Magenta)

    Carol Vogel, “Gagosian Adds to London Space,” The New York Times, December 12, 2003 (ill.)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), Martin-Gropius-Bau,"Metropolis," Art, June 1, pp. 89, 153 (color ill. pp. 88-89, Private collection installation) (Magenta)

    Gudrun Inboden, DaimlerChrysler Collection: The Sculptures (Germany: DaimlerChrysler Collection, 2003) (color ill. p. 23) (Blue)

    Private/Corporate II, Works from the DaimlerChrysler Collection and from the Ileana Sonnabend Collection: A Dialogue, exh. cat. (Berlin: 2003) (color ill. p. 12, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin) (Blue)

    Judd Tully, “Striking it Rich,” Art + Auction, May 2004, p. 141 (color ill. p. 141)

    Janet Kutner, “DMA Gift a Work of Heart,” Dallas Morning News, February 16, 2005, p. 16A (color ill. p. 16A) (Magenta)

    “Beyond Generous,” Dallas Morning News, February 17, 2005 (ill.) (Magenta)

    Janet Kutner, “Passion for Art Dictates Flow of Couple's Lives,” Dallas Sunday Morning News, August 28, 2005, p. 1G (color ill. p. 1G) (Magenta)

    Robert Rosenblum, “Grounds for Reflection,” House and Garden, January 2006, pp. 106-107 (color ill. pp. 106-107) (Magenta)

    "Approval Matrix," New York Magazine, April 2006, p. 72 (color ill. p. 72) (Red)

    David Dunlap, “Luster of 7 World Trade Center Has Tattered Reminder of 9/11,” The New York Times, May 24, 2006 (ill.) (Red)

    Joshua Rhett Miller, “Just the Beginning,” Metro, May 24, 2006 (color ill. cover, 7 World Trade Center installation, detail) (Red)

    Cheryl Kaplan, “Koons & McCartney,” Monopol, no. 3 (June-July 2006), pp. 80-88 (color ill. pp. 80) (Blue, detail)

    "Power 100," ArtReview (November 2006), pp. 68 (World Trade Center, Red)


    Kirsten Swenson, "Louise Lawler Looks Back," Art in America, December 2006, p. 119


    Eve Kahn, “Splendor in the Grass,” Art+Auction, May 2007, p. 155 (color ill. p. 155, installation) (Magenta)

    Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections, exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art,2007) (color ill. pp. 262-263) (Magenta)


    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed. Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), pp. 9, 424, 425 (color ill. pp. 9, detail; color ill; color ill. p. 33, installation Red; color ill. p. 413, Magenta; color ill. p. 413, Blue) 


    Julia Reed, “Mi casa es su casa,” Vogue Living, Spring-Summer 2008 (color ill p. 45)

    Carol Vogel, “As Koons Prices Balloon, His Dallas ‘Flower’ Will Be Sold,” The New York Times, May 23, 2008 (color ill., installation) (Magenta)

    "City Life," Evening Standard, June 19, 2008 (color ill. pp. 32-33) (Magenta) 

    Carol Vogel, “Win One, Loose One for Dallas Museum,” The New York Times, June 27, 2008

    Souren Melikian, “Stellar Results for Christie’s Mask Deep Fault Lines in Market,” International Herald Tribune, The Global Edition of The New York Times, July 24, 2008

    Mary Straub, “Move in and Around Manhattan,” The New York Sun, August 18, 2008

    Valerie Duponchelle and Sebastien Le Fol, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Aillagon s'explique," Le Figaro, September 11, 2008, p. 25 (color ill. p. 25, installation) (Yellow)

    "Un roi kitsch a Versailles," Dailymatin, September 15, 2008, p. 20, illustrated in color (Yellow, installation view)

    Raphael Morata, "Jeff Koons au chateau de Versai lles," Point de Vue, September 17, 2008 (color ill. p. 61, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 63, Versailles installation detail; color ill. p. 63, Versailles installation); (Yellow)


    Isabelle de Wavrin, "Atelier de Chelsea: La fabrique Jeff Koons" in "Jeff Koons: Versailles," (French) Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008, pp. 9, 12, 13

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "L'enterprise Jeff Koons," Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008, pp.110, 112 (Red)

    Laurence Dreyfus, "En Grande Pompe," Le Magazine de L'optimum, no. 6 (September 2008), p. 114 (Magenta)

    Gabriela Walde, "Sunnyboy der Amerikanischen Kunst," Welt Am Sonntag, Fall 2008 (color ill. p. 1) (Magenta)

    Michael Posch, "Kult und Mythos - ein Festival der Kunst," (Text in German) Welt Am Sonntag, no. 24 (Autumn 2008) (color ill. cover) (Magenta)

    Ingrid Sischy, "All Corte Dire Jeff," Photos by Karl Lagerfeld. Vanity Fair, no. 40 (October 2008) (color ill. p. 244, Versailles installation) (Yellow)

    Francois Monnin, "Jeff Koons une star a Versailles," La Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot, no. 37 (October 31, 2008) (color ill. p. 232, installation) (Yellow)

    Michel Houellebecq, "Jeff Koons", Art World 7 (October/November 2008), pp. 10, 35 (color ill., installation image at Versailles; color ill., installation image at Versailles) (Yellow)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German), Vanity Fair (Germany), no. 46 (November 2008)

    Philippe Dagen, "Evenement: Jeff Koons Versailles," artpress, November 2008 (color ill. p. 24, installation) (Yellow)

    Matthew Simmons, "Art Star," Lifestyles Magazine, Winter 2008, p. 30 (Magenta)

    Germano Celant, The American Tornado: Art in Power 1949-2008 (Milan: Skira, 2008) (ill. p. 392, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin installation) (Blue)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 34 (detail), 59, 96 (detail), (color ill.) (Magenta)

    Craig Raine, "Looney Koons," Evening Standard, June 4, 2009, pp. 26-27 (color ill. pp. 26-27) (Magenta)

    "Clothes That Pop," Glamour, November 2009, pp. 188-189 (color ill., pp. 188-189 installation) (Red)

    Blitzen-Benz Bang - Daimler Art Collection: Mixed Media, Sculptures, Commissioned Works, exh. cat., ed. by Renate Wiehager (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009), p. 314, 328, 330 (color ill., back cover; color ill. pp. 316-317,installed at Marlene Dietrich-Platz, Potsdamer Platz Berlin; color ill. p. 329, installed at Marlene Dietrich-Platz; color ill. p. 331, installed at Marlene Dietrich-Platz)

    Chris Garlick, "Jeff Koons," art of England, 2009, p. 35 (Red)

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 24, 128, 132, 150, 183 (color ill. p. 25, Versailles installation; color ill. pp. 26-27, detail), (color ill. p. 28, detail; color ill. p. 29, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 132)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist (foreword and conversation), Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, eds. Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, 2009), pp. 74, 77 (color ill. p. 74) (Magenta)

    Ken Smith, Ken Smith: Landscape Architect (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2009), p. 154 (color ill., p. 154, installation) (Red)

    Susan Tallman andDeborah Wye, 200 Artworks 25 Years, Artists’ Editions for Parkett (Zurich: Parkett, 2009), pp. 242-245 (color ill. p. 244-245) (Yellow)

    “Jeff Koons the Top Selling Living Artist,” Harper’s Bazaar Men’s Style (Beijing Edition), February 2010, p. 159 (color ill., p. 159, installation) (Red)

    Peter Richter, “I ♥Jeff Koons,” BMW Magazine, Autumn, 2010, p. 61 (color ill, p. 61) (Magenta)

    Mark Seal, "Too Big to Sail?" Vanity Fair, November 2010, pp. 206-218

    Judith Benhamou-Huet, Les Oeuvres D'art les Plus Chères du Monde, France: Editions du Chêne, 2010, p. 119 (color ill. p. 119) (Magenta)

    Andrew Russeth, “The Blue Flower: How Jeff Koons’s ‘Balloon’ Sculpture Could Make History, Again, at Christie’s,” ARTINFO.COM, October 29, 2010 (color ill.) (Blue)

    “Property From The Daimler Art Collection: Jeff Koons, Balloon Flower (Blue),” Christie’s A Season of Masterpieces, November 10, 2010, pp. 38-47 (color ill. pp. 38-47) (Blue)

    “Koons: Balloon Flower (Blue),” Christie’s Private View, November/December 2010 (color ill.) (Blue)

    Michael Kimmelman, “Culture of Recession? Or Vice Versa?” The New York Times, December 16, 2010, (color ill.) (Blue)

    Charlotte Burns, “Evidence grows of market revival,” The Art Newspaper, December 2010 (color ill. cover) (Magenta, Blue)

    “Celebration, Childhood, Colour, and Simplicity: Koons’s Balloon Flower (Blue),” Christie’s International Highlights, Winter 2010 (color ill. p. 147) (Blue)

    Kelly Crow, "Der Sonnenkönig der Kunst," Welt (Germany), no. 24 (June 12, 2011) (Magenta)

    Scott Reyburn, "Art Prices Return to Near Peak Level, Collector Rachofsky Says," Bloomberg, March 22, 2011 (Magenta)

    David Colman, “Jeff Koons," Interview Magazine, November 26, 2011 (color ill. Versailles installation) (Magenta, Red)

    Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, "U.S. Giant Jeff Koons," Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012, p. 95 (color ill. p. 95, Versailles installation) (Yellow)

    Carlotta Loverni Botta, "Koons at the Fondation Beyeler," Vogue Italia, June 15, 2012 (color ill.) (Blue)

    Catherine Hickley, "Jeff Koons Fashions Venus’s Buttocks in Shiny Steel," Bloomberg, June 24, 2012 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-‐06-‐24/jeff-‐koons-‐fashions-‐venus-‐s-‐buttocks-‐in-‐shiny-‐steel-‐interview.html

    George Pendle, "Jeff Koons Welcome to the Funhouse," The American Visual Arts in China, Summer/Fall 2012, p. 39 (Magenta)

    Belinda Luscombe, "10 Questions," TIME Magazine, November 29, 2012) (color ill., outdoor installation) (Magenta) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkRALSJUvw&list=SL

    Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," (Text in German) Interview (Germany) (November 2012) (color ill. p. 102, pond installation) (Magenta)

    Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," Interview, December 2012/January 2013, p. 46 (Magenta)

    Hans-Joachim Muller, "Es war einmal... (Once Upon a Time...)" Monopol: Special Jeff Koons (Germany), 2012, p. 40 (Blue)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 155, 182, 205, 207 (color ill. pp. 154-155) (Blue)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 81) (Magenta)

    "Top 100 Art Collectors," Lifestyle Magazine, Winter 2014 

    Anne Breucha, Die Kunst der Postproduktion: Jeff Koons in Seinen interviews (Wilhelm Fink, 2014) (ill. p. 92, World Trade Center installation) (Red)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 152, 159, 303 (color ill. p. 152, pl. 87, Yellow; color ill. p. 159, fig. 7, Fondational Beyeler installation, Blue) 

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 150, 157, 300 (color ill. p. 157, fig. 7, Fondation Beyeler installation; color ill. p. 150, pl. 86, Yellow)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 155, 157 (Red)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal, China: Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 157 (color ill. p. 157, Versailles installation) (Yellow) 

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 157 (color ill. p. 157, Versailles installation) (Yellow) 

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014), pp. 201, 203 (color ill. p. 108, Christie's installation view) (Blue)

    Iker Seisdedos, "Retrato de Jeff Koons, el artista más cotizado del mundo," (Text in Spanish) El País, May 27, 2015

    Laura Brown, "Women Who Dare: Justine Koons," Harper's Bazaar, November 2015, p. 282

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), 

    pp. 152 (Yellow, not exhibited), 159 (Blue, installation view, not exhibited), illustrated in color

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 62 (color ill. p. 62, Potsdamer Platz installation) (Blue)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), pp. 155, 157 (Red)

    "Jeff Koons," Suddeutsche Zeitung, January 10, 2016 (color ill.) (Magenta)

    Michael B. Dougherty, Art + NYCA Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists(New York: Museyon Inc., 2016), p. 95 (Red)

    Alexander Kauffman, "Jeff Koons," in Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, exh. cat.,ed. by Carlos Basualdo (Philadelphia: Yale University Press, 2016), p. 164 (Magenta)

    Joachim Jager, Constanze von Marlin, Andre Odier, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 2018) (color ill. 244) (Magenta)

    Jeon Eun-ji, "Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons," Handmaker (Korea), November 5, 2021 (Red) http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11883

    Dario Pappalardo, "Jeff Koons e gli sceicchi dell'arte," La Repubblica (Italy), November 26, 2021 (color ill., QM Gallery Al Riwaq at the Museum of Islamic Art by Cindy Ord) (Magenta)  https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2021/11/25/news/koons_qatar_arte_doha_mostra-327810772/

    Song Peifen, ""Lost in America": A Visual Biography of Jeff Koons," The Financial Times Chinese, December 2, 2021 (color ill., QM Gallery Al Riwaq at the Museum of Islamic Art by Cindy Ord) (Magenta)  http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001094695?full=y&archive

    Benjamin Locoge, "Jeff Koons, La World Compagnie," Paris Match (France),n°3789 (December 16 - 22, 2021) (color ill., QM Gallery Al Riwaq at the Museum of Islamic Art by Cindy Ord) (Magenta) https://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Art/Jeff-Koons-Les-objets-sont-mieux-prepares-que-nous-a-survivre-1776419

    Phyllis Tuchman, "Jeff Koons Looks Back on a Life in the Art World," Town & Country, December 20, 2021 (color ill., QM Gallery Al Riwaq at the Museum of Islamic Art by Cindy Ord) (Magenta) https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a38528663/jeff-koons-qatar-interview/

    Bianca Brigitte Bonomi, "Jeff Koons in Qatar: The American Artist’s Lost in America Exhibition Is One Not To Be Missed…," Harper's Bazaar Arabia, March 25, 2022 (color ill., QM Gallery Al Riwaq at the Museum of Islamic Art by Cindy Ord) (Magenta) https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/culture/art/jeff-koons-in-qatar

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

    "The Municipality of Hydra awarded the world-famous pop art artist Jeff Koons," ProtoThema (Greece), June 21, 2022 color ill., Qatar Museum installation view) (Magenta) https://www.protothema.gr/culture/article/1256672/o-dimos-udras-vraveuse-ton-pagosmiou-fimis-pop-art-kallitehni-jeff-koons/

    Flaminio Gualdoni, Arte Contemporanea - I Protagonisti: 04- Koons (Italy: Corriere Della Serra, 2022), p. 16 (installation view. p. 17) (Magenta)

    Art - World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein, introduction (Silverstein, 2023) (color ill. pp. 46-47) (Red)

Baroque Egg with Bow
1994–2008

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
78 3/8 x 76 13/16 x 76 inches
199 x 195 x 193 cm 

5 unique versions (Turquoise/Magenta, Blue/Turquoise, Blue/Gold, Orange/Magenta, Pink/Gold)

  • Moscow, Gagosian Gallery, Red October, for what you are about to receive, September 18 – October 25, 2008 (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Berlin, Neue National Gallery, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 9, 2009 (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Baroque Egg with Bow, February 22, 2012 – August 24, 2014 (Orange/Magenta)

  • for what you are about to receive, ed. Larry Gagosian and Barbara Rose, exh. cat. (Moscow: Gagosian Gallery, Red October Chocolate Factory, 2008), pp. 29, 232 (color ill. 214, installation view; color ill. 219, installation view) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Gagsoian Moscow Advertisement for the exhibition for what you are about to receive, Art in America, no. 8 (September 2008) (color ill. back cover, advertisement)

    "Jeff Koons," Artforum, September 2008 (color ill. p. 11, advertisement)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed. Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2009) (color ill. p. 416) (Orange/Magenta)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008) (color ill. p. 50 detail; color ill. pp. 80-81) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Anthony Haden-Guest, "Takeover Moscow," Whitewall, Winter 2009 (color ill. p. 49) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, July 2, 2009, p. 34

    Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan) no. 125 (January 2010) (color ill. p. 22) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Adriana Abascal, "Vestir Una Pasion," Vogue Mexico, no 143 (May 2011) (color ill. p. 314) (Pink/Gold)

    "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Central Plains Journal (China), May 2011 (color ill. p. 10, Neue Nationalgalerie installation detail) (Turquoise/Magenta) 

    Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, "U.S. Giant Jeff Koons," Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012 (color ill. p. 93)

    Jean-Pierre Frimbois and Marie-Pierre Nakamura, Art Actuel, January/February 2012 (color ill. cover) (Orange/Magenta)

    Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 85, 91 (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Karanvir Singh, "Jeff Koons $33.6M Sculptural Masterpiece Tulips illuminates the Wynn Theater rotunda at Wynn Las Vegas," Born Rich, February 2, 2013

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014) (color ill. p. 115, Neue Nationalgalerie installation view) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 149 (color ill. p. 149, fig. 11, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 157 (color ill. p. 157, fig. 11, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    "Gagosian Gallery Exhibitions," Gagosian, November-January 2015, (color ill. installation view p. 130) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 159 (color ill. p. 159, fig. 11, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    Else Marie Bukdahl, The Recurrent Actuality of the Baroque (Controluce, 2017), p. 184 Fig 71 (Orange/Magenta)

    Joachim Jager, Constanze von Marlin, Andre Odier, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 2018) (color ill. p. 246, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Turquoise/Magenta)

    "Easter! 5 x eggs in art," Avrotros (Netherlands), April 11, 2022 (color ill., Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen installation view) https://www.avrotros.nl/kunst/item/pasen-5-x-eieren-in-de-kunst/

    Carlos María Pinasco, "Algo más que Huevos de Pascua," MDZ Online (Argentina), April 24, 2022 (color ill., Museum Boijmans van Beuningen installation view) https://www.mdzol.com/sociedad/2022/4/24/algo-mas-que-huevos-de-pascua-238208.html

Bowl with Eggs
1994–2009

polyethylene
67 x 126 3/4 x 126 3/4 inches
170.2 x 321.9 x 321.9 cm

5 unique versions (Blue, Pink, Yellow, Orange, Green)

  • Berlin, Neue National Galerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 9, 2009, pp. 70-71, 72-73 (detail), illustrated in color (Green)

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 – October 16 (Pink)

  • Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51 (December 1997), p. 79 (ill., plaster maquette)

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons," W Magazine, April 2000, p. 402

    Calvin Tompkins, “The Turnaround Artist,” The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 67

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” Vanity Fair (Germany), no. 46 (November 2008) (color ill. p. 42, detail, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Green)

    Tim Ackermann, "Leicht und doch so schwer," Die Welt, November 2008 (color ill.) (Green)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2008, p. 416, illustrated in color (in progress)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008) p. 72 (color ill. pp. 70-71; color ill. pp. 72-73, detail, as '1994-2008') (Green)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 183

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 148 (color ill. p. 148 (color ill. p. 148, fig. 6, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Green)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 156 (color ill. p. 156, fig. 6, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Green)


    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015) p. 158 (color ill. p. 158, fig. 6, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Green)

    Louisa Buck, "Jeff Koons: Now at Newport Street Gallery preview," The Telegraph (UK), May 13, 2016, online (color ill.) (Pink) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/12/paris-finally-finds-home-jeff-koons-giant-tulips-purist-claims/

    Farah Nayeri, "Damien Hirst to Open a Jeff Koons Show at His London Museum," The New York Times, May 16, 2016 (Pink) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/arts/design/damien-hirst-to-open-a-jeff-koons-show-at-his-london-museum.html

    Sarah Kent, "Jeff Koons: Now, Newport Street Gallery," The Arts Desk, May 26, 2016 (color ill.) (Pink)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 5, 10, 54, 82 (color ill. pp. 54-55; color ill. p. 82; color ill. p. 102) (Pink)

    Joachim Jager, Constanze von Marlin, Andre Odier, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 2018) (color ill. p. 245) (Green)

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 122 (color ill. pp. 122-123) (Green)

    Tatjana Seel, "King of Kitsch," Monsieur, Summer 2022 (color ill.) (Green)

    Jose Iglesias, "Photo gallery: Images from Art Basel Miami Beach VIP opening day," The Miami Herald, November 29, 2022 (color ill.) (Yellow)

    Katya Kazakina, "At Art Basel Miami Beach, a Tale of Two Markets: Lean at the Top, But Robust on the Lower End," Artnet News, December 1, 2022 (color ill.) (Yellow) https://news.artnet.com/market/art-basel-miami-beach-day-two-report-2213652

    Jeff Koons: Bowl with Eggs (Yellow), White Cube Salon, 2022 (Yellow)

Balloon Dog
1994–2000

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
121 x 143 x 45 inches 
307.3 x 363.2 x 114.3 cm 

5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)

  • Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10,1997 – July 21,1999 (in progress Blue)

    London, Royal Academy of Arts, Apocalypse: Beauty & Horror in Contemporary Art, 2000 (Red) 

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, October 7, 2001 – January 6, 2002; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, March 16 – June 3, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 28 – October 20, 2002; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, February 15, 2003 – September 7, 2003 (in progress, Blue)

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003 (Red) 

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 (Red)

    New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April 7 – June 5, 2004 (Orange)

    Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Shiny, 2006 (Blue)

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 'Where are We Going?': Selections from the François Pinault Collection, April 30 – October 1, 2006 (Magenta)

    Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, February 17 – May 13, 2007 (Blue)

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, The François Pinault Collection: a Post-Pop Selection, 2007 (Magenta)

    Los Angeles, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Transformation, 2008 (Blue)

    New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jeff Koons on the Roof, April 22 – October 26, 2008 (Yellow)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (Orange)

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 8, 2009 (Red)

    Versailles, Château de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (Magenta)

    Greenwich, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Remembering Henry’s Show, May 2009 – February 2010 (Orange)

    New York, Seagram Building, May 2010 (Orange) 

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, The World Belongs to You, June 2 – December 31, 2011 (Magenta)

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13 – October 2, 2012 (Red)

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Voice of Images, August 30, 2012 – January 13, 2013 (Magenta)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (Yellow)

    Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Sculpture after Sculpture - Fritsch, Koons, Ray, October 11, 2014 – January 18, 2015 (Red)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (Magenta)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (Magenta)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, May 19 – September 29, 2019 (Magenta)

    Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Icons: Worship and Adoration, October 19, 2019 – March 1, 2020 (Red)

    Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jeff Koons: Absolute Value / From the Collection of Marie and Jose Mugrabi, March 10, 2020 – April 3, 2021 (Orange)

    Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 19 – October 18, 2021 (Magenta)

    Paris, Bourse de Commerce, Le monde comme il va, March 20 – September 23, 2024 (Magenta)

  • The Dakis Joannou Collection: Everything That's Interesting is New, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Ostfilden: Cantz/ DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 1996) (color ill. pp. 162-163, work in progress at studio)

    Ingrid Sischy, "The Cat is Out of the Bag," Interview, February 1997, p. 95, (color ill. p. 90-91, illustration; color ill. pp. 92-93, work in progress at studio, Photo: Ellen Von Unwerth)

    David Rimanelli, “Jeff Koons, A Studio Visit: It’s My Party,” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997), p. 115

    Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: Ten Years Later," Flash Art (Milan) 30, no. 195 (Summer 1997) (color ill. cover, illustration) (Yellow)

    Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, 'Euphoric Enthusiasm' in Parkett, no. 50-51, Zurich, December 1997, pp. 93 (details), 98-99, illustrated (work in progress)

    Alexander Smoltczyk, "Malen nach Zahlen," (Text in Germany) Der Spiegel Kultur Extra, April 1998 (color ill. pp. 8-9, installation)

    David Bowie, “Super-Banalism and the Innocent Salesman,” Modern Painters, Spring 1998, pp. 29, 31 (color. ill. p. 31, work in progress)

    "Flash Art XXXI Years. Three Decade Inside Art," Flash Art, n. 201 (Milan) (Summer 1998) (color ill. p. 88, cover illustration) (Yellow)

    Judd Tully, "Deconstructing Jeffrey," Art+Auction, December 1998, p. 43 (color ill., p. 38, work incomplete without color, installation view at Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica)

    Jim Cohan, Hands On: A Coloring Book, exh. cat. (New York: 242 Partners, L.P., 1998) (color ill, Broad installation, work in progress)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), pp. 11, 15, 16, 33, 37, 38, 41 (color ill. pp. 40-41, work in progress), 46, all as '1996-'

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons", W 29, no. 4 (April 2000), p. 402 (color ill., p. 400, work incomplete without color, installation view at Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica)

    Jeffrey Deitch, "Jeff Koons Celebration al di la dello specchio: Viaggio nel mondo Koons," Text in Italian) Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (April-May 2000), p. 79

    Andrew Graham-Dixon, "The Inflated World of Jeff Koons," The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, September 17, 2000, p. 18, (ill., cover)

    Fiachra Gibbons, "Shock Art with Horror for All to Enjoy," The Guardian, September 20, 2000, p. 7 (ill. p. 7, Royal Academy of Art installation) (Red)

    Nigel Reynolds, "RA Aims for New Sensation with a Hell of a Show," The Daily Telegraph, September 20, 2000, p. 11 (ill. p. 11, Royal Academy of Art installation) (Red)

    Michael Wilson, "Whoops Apocalypse!" Art Monthly, no. 2411 (November 2000), cover, p. 1 ill. p. 1, Royal Academy of Art installation) (Red)

    Rolf E. Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), fig. 9, p. 27 (color ill. p. 26, installation, as "Balloon Dog (foreground) from Celebration series, 1994-2000", installation) (Red)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001), pp. 275, 277 (color ill. p. 271, Royal Academy installation) (Red)

    Elizabeth Hayt, "If You Wow Them, They Will Come," The New York Times, February 18, 2001 (ill. p. 4, Royal Academy of Art installation) (Red)

    James Reginato, "Broad Stokes," W Magazine, September 2001 (color ill. p. 553, work incomplete without color, installation view at Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 42, 81

    Matthew Collings, "Jeff Koons" in Writers on Artists in association with Modern Painters (New York: DK Publishing Inc., 2001) (color ill. p. 47, work incomplete without color, installation view at Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica)

    Stephanie Barron, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), p. 28 (color ill. p. 28, work in progress) 

    Anselm Wagner, " Einfach ubertrieben (Simply Exaggerated)," (Text in German) Frame (Germany), January-March 2002, (color ill. 80, Royal Academy installation) (Red)

    Chiara Mariani, "Scandaloso Koons," (text in Italian) La Repubblica delle Donne (March 2002), p. 90 (color ill. p. 92) (Red)

    “Advance Billing,” The Boston Globe, June 6, 2002 (ill.) (Blue)

    “MFA Looking for a Few Good Canines and Their Owners” in Boston Herald, July 3, 2002 (ill.) (Blue)

    “Pet Art,” Gloucester Daily Times, July 9, 2002 (ill., installation) (Blue)

    “Fetching Display,” The Patriot Ledger, July 12, 2002 (ill., installation) (Blue)

    Christine Temin, “The Collector” in The Boston Globe, July 21, 2002, sec. L, p. 1 (ill.) (Blue)

    John Lehman, “Fun Pop” in The Patriot Ledger, July 20 –21, 2002, p. 25 (ill. p. 25) (Blue)

    Museum of Fine Arts Boston Preview September/October 2002 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 16) (Blue)

    "Jeff Koons, El "Enfant" Terrible del Pop Art," Vogue (Milan), (February 2003) (ill. p. 42)

    Hektor Rodriguez, Iñaki Eskala, "Jeff Koons," Neo2 Magazine, April 2003, p. 47 (color ill. 46) (Blue)

    Michael McKenzie, Images We Love: Popular Art in America (American Image Books, 2003) (color ill. cover, p. 70, Royal Academy installation) (Red)

    Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2002), p. 25 (Blue)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 86 (color ill. p. 87) (Red)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003) (color ill. p. 28, Royal Academy installation) (Red)

    Kelly Divine Thomas, "The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists," ARTnews 103, no. 5 (May 2004), p. 121

    Jonathan Heaf, "Blow Up," POP, no. 8 (Spring/Summer 2004), p. 321

    Jessica Kerwin, "The Golden Greek," W (October 2004) (color ill. pp. 366-367, installation) (Red)

    Paul Schimmel, "Best of 2004," Artforum (November 2004), p. 168 (color ill. p. 168, C&M installation) (Orange)

    “Best of 2004: 13 Critics and Curators Look at the Year in Art,” Artforum, December 2004, p. 168 (Orange)

    The Broad Art Foundation (Los Angeles: Primary Color, 2004), (color ill. p. 4, installation) (Blue)

    Monument to Now, ed. Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004) (Red)

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 26, 86 (color ill. pl. 4, pp. 27, 86; color ill. pp. 28-29, detail) (Orange)

    Giancarlo Politi, “Jeff Koons An Interview by the Readers of Flash Art," Flash Art, January-February 2005, p. 90 (ill.)

    “Jeff Koons Makes Pop Art with No Apologies,” Baltimore Sun, April 9, 2005 

    Kelly Devine Thomas, “The Selling of Jeff Koons,” Art News, vol. 104, no. 5 (May 2005), p. 121 (color ill.  cover) (Blue)

    Takashi Murakami, “Kaibustu-Art (Art of Monster)," Yomiuri Newspaper, June 2005, p. 40 

    Philippe Piguet, “M/M (Paris): regard sur une collection,” L’Oeil, September 2005, p. 18

    Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, exh. cat. (New York, Japan Society, 2005), p. 284

    "Where Are We Going?": Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection, ed. by Andrew Hultkrans and Elizabeth Schambelan (Venice: Palazzo Grazzi and Skira Editore, 2006), (ill. p. 45; color ill. p. 248) (Magenta)

    Harry Bellet,  “Pinault (Simple) Collectionneur,” Le Monde, April 16, 2006, p. 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 37, 38 (Magenta)

    Beaux Arts Magazine, France, August 2006, illustrated in color on the cover (Magenta)

    Kurt Shaw, “1958: A Good Year for Art” in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 15, 2006

    Christos Tolera, “To whim or not to whim” in Cent, no. 8, Autumn/Winter 2006, pp. 18-19, illustrated in color (installation view) (Blue)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons (Supercontemporanea series), Milan, 2006, pp. 66-67, illustrated in color (Red)

    Translation. Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2006. [Texts by M/M Paris, Katia Arfara, and Nicolas Bourriaud], illustrated in color on the cover. (Magenta)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Koons World," W Magazine, November 2006, p.312, 316, mentioned without illustration. 

    Bob Colacello, "Eli Broad's Big Picture," Vanity Fair, December 2006, p. 329, illustrated in color (Blue)

    Tomkins, Calvin. "The Turnaround Artist." The New Yorker. New York: Conde Nast, April 23, 2007, p.65, 67, mentioned without illustration.

    Ward, Vicky. François Pinault's Ultimate Luxury," in Vanity Fair. New York: Conde Nast, December 2007, p.231, illustrated in color. (Magenta)

    Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and Gerhard Merz. Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2007. [Text by Godrun Inboden], pp. 105, 109 and 113, illustrated in color (Blue).

    Christa Dietrich, “Eben hineinstolpern ins Glück” in Vorarlberger Nachrichten, Austria, February 17, 2007, A1, D7, Photograph VN/ Hofmeister (Blue?)

    Exh. Cat., Athens, DESTE Foundation [and traveling], Dream & Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 2007  (Red)

    Hans-Joachim Müller, “Immer schon kuhl bleiben: Hirst, Merz, Koons: ‘Re-Object’ im Kunsthaus Bregenz” in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mittwoch, February 21, 2007, no. 44, p. 37, illustrated in color (Blue) 

    Harris, Gareth. “Pinault trounces Guggenheim in battle to control Customs House.” The Art Newspaper, May 2007, 26.

    Camilla Long, “Loony Koons” in Tatler, vol. 3, no. 5, May 2007, pp. 11,116-122. 

    Daniella Walsh, "Jeff Koons: On Track" in Art and Living, Summer 2007, p. 43, illustrated in color (Blue)

    Michelle Kuo, “Industrial Revolution: On the History of Fabrication” in Artforum, October 2007, p. 308,  illustrated in color (Orange, in progress)

    Ann Landi, "How Jeff Koons Became a Superstar," ARTnews 106, no. 10 (November 2007), p.187, illustrated in color. (Blue)

    Jori Finkel, “LA’s Art House Director” in Departures Magazine, November/December 2007, pp. 200-202, illustrated

    West, Kevin, “In with the New,” W, November 2007. p. 226 [illustration of Magenta version, not actual work]

    Vicky Ward, “François Pinault’s Ultimate Luxury” in Vanity Fair, December 2007, pp. 222-231, p. 231, illustrated in color (Magenta)

    Matthew Simmons, "Art Star" in Lifestyles Magazine, Winter 2008, p. 26, illustrated in color (Metropolitan roof installation, Yellow)

    Patrick McCaughey, "Taming the Monster" in Apollo, April 2008, pp. 11, 30 (installation at BCAM), illustrated in color (Blue)

    Daniel Schneider, “Market Index: Jeff Koons” in ArtForum, April 2008, pp. 310-311, illustrated in color (Yellow)

    Michael Duncan, “LACMA Sizes Up” in Art in America, May 2008, p. 68, illustrated in color (Blue)

    Akemie Nakamura, "Artistic Hues" in Nippon Vogue, May 2008, p. 143, illustrated in color (Magenta)

    O'Brien, Glenn. "Eli Broad at LACMA," in Interview. New York: Brant Art Publications, May 2008, p.26, illustrated in color. (Blue)

    Blake Gopnik, “Man from Mars Comes in peace” in The Washington Post, June 17, 2008, illustrated (Orange)

    Jeff Koons. Chicago: MCA Chicago and Yale University Press, 2008. [Text by Francesco Bonami; Interview with Lynne Warren], p.80-82, illustrated in color. (Orange)

    Susan Stamberg, “Jeff Koons Has a Ta-Da Moment in Chicago” in NPR, morning edition, July 25, 2008

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2008, pp. 61 (Yellow), 423 (Blue) and p.581 (installation view, Blue, Kunsthaus Bregenz), illustrated in color

    Francesco Bonami, “Jeff Koons” in Panorama First, no. 4, 2008, pp. 112-118, illustrated in color on p. 117, (Red)

    Jeff Koons Versailles. Paris: Deux-Ponts, 2008. [Texts by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon; Interviews by Michel Houllebecq, and Laurent Le Bon], pp. 31, 32-34 (detail), 35, 134, 166, illustrated in color, installation shots (Magenta).

    Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons" in art actuel, no. 57, July/August 2008, p. 75, illustrated in color,  (Metropolitan roof installation, Green)

    Raphael Morata, "Jeff Koons: un Artiste Barock" in Point de Vue, August 28-September 3, 2008, p. 61, illustrated in color (Metropolitan roof installation, Yellow)

    "Expositions Etats-Unis" in Connaissance des arts, September 2008, p. 66, illustrated in color (Metropolitan roof installation, Yellow)

    "Jeff Koons: Mickey-l'Ange Contemporain" in Paris Match, September 3, 2008, p. 80, illustrated in color (Metropolitan roof installation, Yellow)

    Laetitia Cenac, "le roi Koons a Versailles" in Madame Figaro, September 6, 2008, p. 142, illustrated in color (Magenta) 

    Matthieu Suc, "Jeff Koons bouscule Versailles" in le Parisien, September 10, 2008, p. 31, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Valerie DuPonchelle, "Toute la planete reunie a Versailles pour Jeff Koons" in Le Figaro, September 10, 2008, p. 1, illustrate in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Directmatin plus, September 15, 2008, p. 1, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Raphael Morata, "Jeff Koons au chateau de Versailles" in Point de Vue, September 17, 2008, p. 64, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Laurent Dandrieu, "Koons squatte Versailles" in Valeurs actuelles, September 18, 2008, p. 74, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Graham Bader, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago" in Artforum, September 2008, p. 450, illustrated in color (Chicago installation, Orange)

    Art & Auction, November 2008, p. 26, illustrated in color (Yellow)

    Kinsella, Eileen. "Buying the Best of the Best." ARTnews. New York: Artnews Ltd., Summer 2009, p.13, 115, illustrated in color. (Yellow)

    Kulturpur, September 2008 - July 2009, pp. 16, 23, illustrated in color (Red)

    Ute Thon, "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand" in Art, October 2008, pp. 4, 37, illustrated in color (Metropolitan Museum roof, Yellow)

    Michael Houellebecq, "Jeff Koons" in Art World, issue 7, October/November 2008, p. 33, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German), Vanity Fair, November 2008, p.40-41, color installation view. (Neue Nationalgalerie, Red).

    Philippe Dagen, "Evenement: Jeff Koons Versailles" in artpress, November 2008, p. 23, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Anna Maria Merlo and Gareth Harris, "Guides told: don't mock the Koons" in The Artnewspaper, December 2008, p. 1, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Dodie Kazanjian, "The Art of Persuasion," Vogue, May 2008, pp. 268-275 and continued on p. 315.  Illustrated in color (Blue) on pp. 268-269

    Adolfo Montejo Navas, "Another Aesthetic Mainstream" in Lapiz, 250-251, February/March 2009, p. 116, illustrated in color (Magenta)

    Eileen Kinsella, "Buying the Best of the Best", ARTnews, vol. 107, no. 7, Summer 2009, pp. 13, 115, illustrated in color (installation view, Metropolitan Museum roof, Yellow)   

    The New York Times, May 29, 2009, p. C8, illustrated in color (animated in advertisement for film, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Red)

    Lacayo, Richard. "Show Me the Bunny: As he Closes in on 60, Jeff Koons finally gets his really big show," in Time. New York: Time Inc., July 2009, p.94, illustrated in color. (Yellow)

    Belcove, Julie L., “Hedging His Bets,” The Art Economist, July 2009; p. 15 [illustration of red balloon dog not actual work] 

    Charlotte Bonham-Carter and David Hodge, The Contemporary Art Book, London 2009, p. 134, illustrated in color (Magenta)

    Marina Cashdan, "Sharing the Wealth" in Whitewall, Fall 2009, p. 76, illustrated in color (installation at Brant Foundation, Red)

    Austria: Art + Architecture + Design [special advertising section] in ARTnews, October 2009, p. 73, illustrated in color (Berlin installation, Blue)

    Hans Werner Holzworth, ed, 100 Contemporary Artists, Cologne 2009, p. 323, illustrated in color (Red)

    Laura Moure Cecchini, "Jeff Koons: La estetizacion del consumismo" in textofilia, no. 17, Mexico 2008, p. 57, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Jacinto Lageira, "Celebration's Deception" in Esse: Arts & Opinions, vol. 67, Fall 2009, p. 7, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Marybeth Sollins, ed., art: 21, Dalton, Massachusetts, 2009, p. 100, illustrated in color (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art installation, Orange) and illustrated in color on the cover (partial, Metropolitan Museum of Art installation, Yellow)

    Deborah Lock, ed., Children's Book of Art, London 2009, p. 130, illustrated in color (Metropolitan Museum of Art installation, Yellow)

    Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, New haven, 2009, p. 26, illustrated in color.  (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Francis M. Naumann, Jeff Koons - New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Base Design, New York, 2010, p 3 illustrated in color (Metropolitan Museum of Art installation, Yellow)

    Peter Grant, "AIG's Space Tests Market For Offices" in The Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2010. Illustrated in color. (Orange installed at the Seagram's Building)

    Ben Lewis, “Into the Dustbin” in Programma,  Spring 2010, illustrated in color p 118  (Metropolitan Museum of Art installation, Yellow)

    Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being, Third Edition, New York, 2010, p 459 illustrated in color (Magenta Venice installation)

    Exh. Cat. , Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, September 16- November 20, 2010. p. 8 illustrated in color (Blue)

    “Looking and Learning” in SchoolArts Magazine, November 2010, illustrated on page 28 (Yellow)

    James Gurney, “Gurney’s Guide to Art and Watches: An A to Z of High Art and High Watchmaking”  in Vanity Fair on Time,  October, 2010. Illustrated in color p 24 (yellow)

    Frederic Bonnet, "Murakami is no competition for the Sun King" in The Art Newspaper, November 2010, pg. 36 illustrated in color (Magenta at Versailles)

    Connie Bruck, "The Art of the Billionaire: How Eli Broad took over Los Angeles," The New Yorker, December 6th, 2010, pp. 50-61.  Mentioned without illustration on p. 57.  

    The Brant Foundation, Remembering Henry’s Show, Greenwich, The Brant Foundation, 2010 p14, 15, 146, and cover illustrated in color (Orange)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple: Jeff Koons" in 20/27 N 05, 2011, illustrated in color p. 136 (Yellow)

    Sylvia Lavin, Kissing Architecture, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011 p. 27 illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Magenta)

    Ken Johnson, Are You Experienced?: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art, New York, Prestel, 2011, p 192 illustrated in color.  (Metropolitan Museum of Art installation, Yellow)

    Marozeau, Maureen, Art 365 Histoires Pour 'Epater La Galerie, France: Editions de la Martinière, 2011. p. 345 (Blue) 

    Gagosian Gallery. Made in Italy, exh. cat., Uckfield, England: Gagosian Gallery, 2011. p. 92-94 (Magenta)

    Pharell Williams, "Jeff Koons's Inspirations," Harper's Bazaar, September 2011, p.470, mentioned without illustration (Magenta).

    Exh. cat, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Anslem Reyle, p. 17 illustrated in color.  (Metropolitan Museum of Art installation, Yellow)

    Jeff Koons. Fondation Beyeler. Basel: Hatje Cantz, 2012, p.150 illustrated in color. (Blue).

    Botta, Carlotta Loverni. "Koons at the Fondation Beyeler." Vogue Italia 15 June 2012. (in online slideshow, not hard copy)

    Jeff Koons: The Sculptor. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012. [Texts by Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann], title page, p.62,  illustrated in color. (Magenta)

    The New York Times Style Magazine, April 14, 2013, p.28, illustrated in color (Met Roof Installation, Yellow)

    "Orange Crush at Christie's." Vanity Fair. New York: Conde Nast, 2013, n.p., illustrated in color. (Orange)

    Guiot, Nathalie, Conversations Artists and Collectors, France: Black Jack Editions, November 2013, p. 152-173. (Red)

    Colacello, Bob. "How do you solve a problem like MOCA?" in Vanity Fair. New York: Conde Nast, March 2013, p.208, illustrated in color. (Blue)

    Smithsonian. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, December 2013, mentioned without illustration. 

    Béatrice Fontanel, Ma Première Histoire de l'ART, Palette, March 2014 p. 113, 124, back cover, Cake; Balloon Dog (Blue)

    “Private View: Just the Ticket," Vanity Fair (On Art), November 2014. p. 36 [Orange Version]

    Polsinelli, Michael and Sasha Burkhanova. “The Words.” Garage Magazine Fall/Winter 2014. p. 95 [Magenta version]

    Romanacce, Aurélie, “Jeff Koons: Le Roi Midas,” Arts Magazine, December 2014. p. 111 [Magenta Version] 

    Moderna Museet, Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, Exh. cat.,  Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014.  [Texts by Jack Bankowsky, Thomas E. Crow, Nicholas Cullinan, Made Great, conversation between Michael Fried, Isabelle Graw, Michelle Kuo, Charles Ray, Scott Rothkopf.] [Red version, Inside cover page, p. 31; p. 14 [Silver in foundry]]

    Koons, Jeff & Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal. China: Thames & Hudson, 2014. p. 152-3, Blue installed at Re-Object, Kunsthaus Bregenz 2007, p. 290-1 Orange Version [English Edition]

    Koons, Jeff and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal. Hove, England: Thames & Hudson, 2014. p. 152-3, Blue installed at Re-Object, Kunsthaus Bregenz 2007, p. 290-1 Orange Version [French Edition]  

    Dagen, Philippe, “Dr Jeff et Mr Koons,” M Le magazine du Monde, November 22, 2014. p. 82-83 [Magenta during Pompidou install]

    Prat, Véronique “Jeff Koons avec ses millions, il achète de Manet,” Le Figaro, November 29, 2014. Cover, p. 49 [Magenta version]

    Dagen, Philippe. "Dr. Jeff et Mr. Koons." Le Magazine du Monde. Paris: Groupe Le Monde, November 2014, mention without illustration, p.79 (oranange); illustrated in color, p.81 (Magenta).

    Lavrador, Judicaël, “Jeff Koons: génie ou imposteur?” Beaux Arts editions, November 2014. p. 136 [Yellow]

    Blissett, Luther, “Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d’artiste,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014 p. 11 [Blue Version installed at Kunsthaus Bregenz 2007]

    Malvoisin, Armelle, “Top 4 des œuvres les plus chères,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014. p. 64 [Orange]

    Felder, Rachel, “Applied Arts,” Art Basel Miami Beach, December 2014. [Magenta]

    Champion, Julie and Caroline Edde, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Album of the Exhibition. Belgium: Centre Pompidou, 2014. Cover, p. 35 [Magenta]

    Champion, Julie and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition. France: Centre Pompidou, 2014. p. 101 [Magenta]

    Socius Cultuurwetenschappen. Belgium: Averbode, 2015, p. 139 (Yellow)

    Rousseau, Éloi. L'Art Contemporain. France: Larousse, 2015 (p. ) (Magenta)

    Susan Shapiro, Barbie: 60 Years of Inspiration (New York: Assouline), pp. 229, 311 (color ill. p. 311 in Magenta)

    Tessa Wild, The Dog: A Celebration at Chatsworth (Derbyshire: Chatsworth House Trust, 2019), p.57

    Apariencia desnuda: El Deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Museo Jumex, 2019), p. 18, illustrated in color (Magenta)

  • "Jeff Koons’ Philosophy of Perfection." Reflections. NOWNESS. June 16, 2014 (Blue)

    "Jeff Koons: High art or plain extravagance?"  Al Jazeera. August 22, 2015.  (Yellow)

    Telematin, French TV France 2, January 21, 2016 (Magenta - Versailles, Balloon Dog (Yellow) plate)

Coloring Book
1997-2005

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
223 1/16 x 133 3/8 x 14 inches, dimensions variable for each version
566.6 x 338.8 x 35.6 cm, dimensions variable for each version

5 unique versions

  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jeff Koons on the Roof, April 22 – October 26, 2008 

    London, Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition 2011, June 7 – August 15, 2011

    Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons, December 7, 2012 – February 14, 2013 

    Sacramento, Downtown Commons Plaza at Golden 1 Center, September 26, 2016 – ongoing

  • Vik Muniz, "Eternal Regress," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 60 (color ill., rendering), 61 (photo credit lists "Digital composite: Tim Silverlake")

    David Rimanelli, “Jeff Koons, A Studio Visit: It’s My Party,” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997), pp. 115, 116 

    Laurie Attias, "A Kinder, Gentler Koons," ARTnews, no. (March 1998), p. 160

    Alan Jones, “Portrait of the Artist at the Drawingboard,” Art on Paper, September-October 2005 (color ill. p. 57, rendering)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2007, p. 406 (color ill. p. 406, concept rendering)

    Emily Hulme, "Jeff Koons Brightens Up the Roof," amNY, April 25-27, 2008 (color ill. p. 23, Roof of the Met installation)

    Ute Thon, "Spieglien, Spieglien an der Wand," Art Kunstmagazin 1 (Germany) (October 2008) (color ill. p. 4, Met roof installation)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 49, 109

    Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins (New York: Abrams Books/Art21, Inc., 2009) (color ill. p. 89, Met Roof installation, detail)

    Veronika Hofer and Betsy Pinover Schiff, New York City Gardens (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2010), pp. 195-197 (color ill. pp. 195-196, Metropolitan roof installation)

    Martin Gayford, "Koons, 52-Ton Tank, Sleazy Star Enliven European Summer / Preview," Bloomberg, May 24, 2011 (color ill. online, Royal Academy installation) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-05-24/koons-52-ton-tank-sleazy-star-spice-up-european-summer-martin-gayford

    Rob Sharp, "Royal Academy 'embarrased' by amateur efforts," Independent, June 1, 2011 (color ill. online, Royal Academy)

    Royal Academy Illustrated 2011, ed., Christopher Le Brun RA (London: Royal Academy of Art, 2011), p. 12 (color ill. pp. 8-9, detail); color ill. p. 13, installation)

    Carol Vogel, "'Inventing Abstraction' at MoMA, Collaboration With WQXR," The New York Times, December 6, 2012

    Neale Whitaker, "Slightly Surreal," Belle (Australia) (November 2013) (color ill. p. 78, Royal Academy of Arts Installation)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014) 

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), (color ill. p. 156, fig. 1, Metropolitan Museum of Art installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 13, 240 (color ill. p. 12, Royal Academy of Arts Installation; color ill. p. 241, Metropolitan Museum Installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 13, 240 (color ill. p. 12, Royal Academy of Arts installation; color ill. p. 241, Metropolitan Museum Installation)

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014) (color ill. pp.104-105, Royal Academy of Arts Installation

    Ryan Lillis, "Sculpture by world-renowned artist Jeff Koons to appear at Sacramento arena," The Sacramento Bee, February 26, 2015 (color ill., Sacramento rendering)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 158 (color ill. p. 158, fig. 1, Metropolitan Museum of Art installation)

    Ryan Lillis and Dale Kasler, "$8 million Piglet-inspired sculpture unwrapped at Golden 1 Center," The Sacramento Bee, September 9, 2016 (color ill. online, Sacramento installation) http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/city-arena/article102311817.html#storylink=cpy

    "Four ways to look at the new Koons," The Sacramento Bee, September 19, 2016 (color ill. online, Sacramento installation)  

    Ryan Lillis, "Koons sculpture a historic moment for Sacramento art," The Sacramento Bee, September 25, 2016 (color ill. online, Sacramento installation)  

    "Here's a Photo of Jeff Koons's Newly Installed Permanent Sculpture in Sacramento, California," Artnews, September 26, 2016 (color ill. online, Sacramento installation)  

    "Internationally Renowned Artist Jeff Koons Joins Sacramento Kings To Unveil Sculpture Commissioned For Arena's Public Plaza," Golden 1 Center, September 26, 2016 (color ill. online, Sacramento installation)  http://www.golden1center.com/news/detail/jeff-koons-joins-kings-to-unveil-sculpture

    Hillary Louise Johnson, "Coloring Outside the Lines," Sactown, October/November 2016 (color ill. p. 123, Sacramento installation)  

    Gagosian Quarterly, November 2016 - January 2017, (color ill. p. 123, Sacramento installation)

    Matt Black, Reflections: In Conversation with Today's Artists (Assouline, 2016) (color ill. pp. 96-97 Gagosian LA installation)

    Michael B. Dougherty, Art + NYCA Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists(New York: Museyon Inc., 2016) (color ill. p. 97, Whitney Retrospective installation)

    Maroine Jit, "L’exposition de Jeff Koons au Mucem se tiendra à partir du 5 mai," Made in Marseille (France), March 4, 2021 (color ill., Metropolitan installation) https://madeinmarseille.net/88705-mucem-jeff-koons-exposition-musee/

  •  "Jeff Koons’ Philosophy of Perfection," Reflections. NOWNESS, June 16, 2014

Cracked Egg
1994–2006

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating 
two parts: 65 x 62 5/8 x 62 5/8 inches (bottom), 39 3/8 x 62 5/8 x 62 5/8 inches (top)
165.1 x 159.1 x 159.1 cm (bottom), 100 x 159.1 x 159.1 cm (top)

5 unique versions (Blue, Red, Magenta, Violet, Yellow)

  • London, Gagosian Gallery, Cracked Egg (Blue), October 2 – December 2, 2006 (Blue)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (Magenta)

    London, Royal Academy of Arts, 240th Summer Exhibition, June 12 – August 19, 2008 (Blue)

    Los Angeles, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, February 12 – September 2008 (Red)

    Berlin, Neue National Galerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 8, 2009 (Blue)

    Kiev, Pinchuk Art Centre, Sexuality and Transcendence, April 24 – September 19, 2010,  pp. 14-15, illustrated in color (Violet)

    Aylesbury, Waddesdon Manor, Jeff Koons: Cracked Egg (Blue) in the Conservatory, May 12 – October 31, 2010 (Blue)

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons. May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012 (Blue)

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, no. 54 (April 2003), p. 48

    “The $3.5 Million Broken Egg,” The New York Sun, 122, no. 125 (October 12, 2006), pp. 1, 14 (color ill. cover, foundry installation view) (Blue)

    Gordon Burn, “A Life in Art: The Showman,” Guardian, November 11, 2006 (color ill.) (Blue)

    Jessica L. Darraby, "Koons Collector: Eli Broad," Art and Living 7, Summer 2007, p. 48 (Red)

    Bill Powers, "Speaking with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeff Koons, Harmony Korine, Philippe Parent, Rodarte, Dash Snow. Interview by Bill Powers, portraits by Terry Richardson," Purple Fashion magazine 3, Issue 8 (Fall/Winter 2007-08), p. 102

    Jerry Saltz, "The Ambassadors," Modern Painters, December 2006/January 2007 (color ill. foundry installation view)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007) (color ill. pp. 408, 424) (Blue)

    Patrick McCaughey, "Taming the Monster," Apollo, April 2008, p. 30 (color ill. p. 30, installation at BCAM) (Red)

    Dodie Kazanjian, "The Art of Persuasion," Vogue, May 2008, pp. 268-275, 315 (color ill., BCAM installation) (Red)

    Glenn O'Brien, "Eli Broad at LACMA," Interview, May 2008 (color ill. p. 68) (Red)

    Michael Duncan, “Report from Los Angeles: LACMA Sizes Up,” Art in America, no. 5 (May 2008), pp. 66-71, (color ill. p. 68) (Red)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German), Vanity Fair (Germany), no. 46 (November 2008) (color ill. pp. 40-41, Neue Nationalgalerie installation; color ill. p. 43, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Blue)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 83, 115 (color ill. p. 83) (Magenta)

    Patrick McCaughey, "Taming the Monster," Apollo Magazine, 2008 (ill. p. 30) (Red)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), p. 57 (color ill. pp. 54-55; color ill. pp. 56-57, detail) (Blue)

    Dan Steadman, Editor, "As sure as Eggs is Eggs- The Emblem of Easter," Kudos Magazine, April 2009, cover, p. 30 (color ill.) (Blue and Magenta)

    Jonathan Jones, "Not just the king of kitsch," TheGuardian, London, June 30, 2009 (color ill. p. 7) (Blue)

    Blitzen-Benz Bang - Daimler Art Collection: Mixed Media, Sculptures, Commissioned Works, exh. cat., ed. by Renate Wiehager (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009), pp. 328, 330

    Hans Werner Holzworth, ed, 100 Contemporary Artists (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), p. 324 (color ill. p. 324) (Blue)

    Jackie Wullschlager, “Lunch with the FT: Jacob Rothschild,” Financial Times, April 16, 2010 (illustration of sculpture) (Blue)

    Richard Moss, Editor, and staff, “National Trust and Arts Council build links with new three-year contemporary sector scheme,” Culture 24, June 7, 2010 (color ill.) (Blue)

    Theresa Thompson, “Modern art at Waddeson Manor,” Oxford Times, July 29th, 2010 (Blue)

    Soline Delos, “Une Journée avec Jeff Koons,” Elle, Paris, September 2010 (color ill.) (Blue)

    Linda Yablonsky, “First Generation,”Artforum, December 18, 2010 (Blue)

    The Broad Foundations Entrepreneurship for the Public Good 2009-2010 (Los Angeles: The Broad Art Foundations, 2010) (color ill. p. 57) (Red)

    Jorg Reckhenrich, Martin Kupp and Jamie Anderson, "Made in Heaven - produced on Earth: Creative Leadership as Art of Projection," Journal of Business Strategy 32, no. 4(2011), pp. 20, 21

    Rachel Spence, “Art, chez Rothschild,” Financial Times, May 11, 2012 (Blue)

    Philippe Dagen, "Un Jeff Koons en cache toujours un autre," (Text in French) Le Monde (May 14, 2012) (color ill., Fondation Beyeler installation) (Blue)

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012 (color ill. Fondation Beyeler installation) (Blue)

    “Fondation Beyler presents first Jeff Koons exhibition ever held in a Swiss Museum,” artdaily.org, June 20, 2012 (Blue) http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55318#.T-h03s0XAr0

    Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 86, 92

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 156 (color ill. p. 156, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago installation) (Magenta)

    Kelly Crow, "A Steel Mogul's Fascination With Koons's 'CrackedEgg'," The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2013 (color ill. online, Pinchuk installation) (Violet)

    Neale Whitaker, "Slightly Surreal," Belle (Australia) (November 2013), pp. 77-78 (color ill. p. 78, Fondation Beyeler installation) (Blue)

    Bill Powers, Interviews with Artists (New York: Gagosian, 2013), pp. 278, 280 (Blue)

    H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), Brancusi in New York 1913-2013, exh. cat. (New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2013), p. 88

    Leslie Newell Peacock, “Crystal Bridges installs Jeff Koons’ Hanging Heart,” Arkansas Times, February 13, 2014

    Reyburn, Scott, “Speculating on Trophy Art” in The New York Times, March 2, 2014, illustrated in color (Magenta)

    Susan Kosor, "Mixed Messages: The Dannheiser Collection at MoMA Crosses Contemporary Art Borders," Downtown Resident, October 1997

    Hal Foster, "At the Whitney," London Review of Books 36, no. 15 (July 31, 2014)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 82) (Magenta)

    "La Poule Aux Oeufs D'or," Le Figaro, November 25, 2014 (color ill.) (Blue)

    Tom Mullaney, "Review: 'In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde' by Matti Bunzl," Chicago Tribune, December 24, 2014

    Agnes Husslein-Arco, Edelbert Köb, and Thomas Mießgang ed., The Other Side: Mirrors and Reflections in Contemporary Art, exh. cat. (Vienna, 2014) (color ill. p. 128) (Blue)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 142, 290 (color ill. p. 142, pl. 87) (Blue)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 150, 300 (color ill. p. 150, pl. 87)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 228 (color ill. p. 228, Museum of Contemporary Art Installation) (Magenta)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 228 (color ill. p. 228, Museum of Contemporary Art Installation) (Magenta)

    Jeff Koons: Split-Rocker, ed. Alison McDonald, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 40 (color ill. p. 40, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel installation) (Blue)

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014) (color ill. p. 112, installation view at Pinchuk Art Centre) (Violet)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 152, 302 (color ill. p. 152, pl. 88) (Blue)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), p. 89 (Red)

    "Wandering Between Worlds," Böllinghaus Steel Stories Magazin V, March 2016 (color ill.) (Blue)

    "Malibu Seen: Art with An Edge," The Malibu Times, April 23, 2017 (color ill.) (Blue)

    Marika Lion, “La scultura non é solo uova di Pasqua” in First online, March 30, 2018, illustrated in color (Magenta)

    "A fusion of opposites Cracked Egg (Blue) by Jeff Koons," Christie's,September 1, 2018 (color ill.) (Blue) https://www.christies.com/features/Jeff-Koons-Cracked-Egg-Blue-9391-3.aspx

    Joachim Jager, Constanze von Marlin, Andre Odier, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 2018) (color ill. 244) (Blue)

    Pietro Mini, "a dialogue with artist jeff koons: trust in yourself!," Designboom, September 28, 2021 https://www.designboom.com/art/dialogue-artist-jeff-koons-trust-in-yourself-09-28-2021/

    Jeon Eun-ji, "Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons," Handmaker (Korea), November 5, 2021 (color ill. by Sam Beebe) http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11883

  • "Jeff Koons: High art or plain extravagance?" in Al Jazeera. 22 August 2015. (Magenta)

Diamond
1994–2005

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating 
76 3/4 x 87 x 83 11/16 inches
194.9 x 221 x 212.6 cm

5 unique versions (Green, Pink, Blue, Yellow, Red)

  • London, Victoria & Albert Museum, May 23 – September 3, 2006 (Pink)

    Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (Yellow)

    Berlin, Neue National Galerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 9, 2009 (Yellow)

    Kiev, Pinchuk Art Centre, Sexuality and Transcendence, April 24 – September 19, 2010 (Blue)

  • Wendy E. Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, December 10, 2005, p. A12 

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paradis no. 1 (Summer 2006) (color ill. p. 22) (Pink)

    Anouchka Roggeman and Karen Wright, “Koons on Koons,” Modern Painters, June 2006, pp. 19, 73 (Pink)

    Fabrice Bousteau and Barbara Soyer, “Le luxe en création,” Beaux Arts, November 2006, p. 90 (color ill. p. 90) (Green)

    Carol Vogel, “A Giant ‘Diamond’ Is Up for Grabs,” The New York Times, September 14, 2007 (Blue)

    Ed Pilkington, “Koons artwork expected to fetch $20m,” The Guardian, October 16, 2007 (Blue)

    Carol Vogel, "Telltale Art. New to the Block or Shopped Around, Fall Offerings Test the Market's Strength," The New York Times, July 7, 2006 (color ill. p. Arts 21) (Blue)

    Kevin West, “In With the New,” W, November 2007, p. 228 (color ill. p. 228, Pinchuk installation) (Blue)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007) (color ill. p. 6 Blue; color ill. p. 405, Green; color ill. p. 407, Pink) 

    "Auction Reviews," Art in America, May 2008, p.102

    Matthew Simmons, "Art Star," Lifestyles Magazine, Winter 2008, p. 30 (Blue)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 85, 115 (color ill. p. 84) (Yellow)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), p. 78 (color ill. pp. 76-77; color ill. pp. 78-79, detail)

    Todd Venezia and Rebecca Rosenberg, "'Diamond in the Roof," New York Post, July 31, 2009 (color ill. p. 3, outdoor installation)

    "Clothes That Pop," Glamour, November 2009, p. 192 (color ill. p. 192) (Green)

    Georgina Adam, "Abu Dhabi Art proves a brave, new world for dealers," The Art Newspaper, no. 208, December 2009, p. 52 (color ill., p. 52, installed at Gagosian's booth, Abu Dhabi Art fair) (Red) 

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist (foreword and conversation), Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, eds. Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, 2009), pp. 75, 77 (color ill. p. 75) (Pink)

    Ken Smith, Ken Smith: Landscape Architect (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2009) (color ill. p. 86; color ill. p. 87) (Green)

    Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan), no. 125, January 2010 (color ill. p. 23, Christie’s installation) (Blue)

    Marisa Mazria Katz, "Abu Dhabi Art," Whitewall, Spring 2010 (color ill. p. 30) (Red)

    Kelly Crow, "The Gagosian Effect," The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2011 (color ill. Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Yellow)

    Kelly Crow, "Der Sonnenkönig der Kunst," (Text in German) Die Welt (Germany), June 12, 2011 (color ill. pp. 58-59, V&A Museum installation) (Pink)

    Jorg Reckhenrich, Martin Kupp and Jamie Anderson, "Made in Heaven - produced on Earth: Creative Leadership as Art of Projection," Journal of Business Strategy 32, no. 4(2011), p. 20

    Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, "U.S. Giant Jeff Koons," Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012, p. 84 (color ill.) (Red)

    Sarah Douglas, "Private Parts: At Basel’s Beyeler Foundation, Jeff Koons Unveils, Explains New Work," Observer, June 19, 2012

    Belinda Luscombe, "10 Questions," TIME Magazine, November 29, 2012 (color ill., V&A Museum installation) (Pink) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkRALSJUvw&list=SL

    Isabelle Graw, "Kunst hat eine besondere Wertform," Texte zur Kunst, December 2012 (color ill. p. 42)

    Karanvir Singh, "Jeff Koons $33.6M Sculptural Masterpiece Tulips illuminates the Wynn Theater rotunda at Wynn Las Vegas," Born Rich, February 2, 2013 (Blue)

    Karin Nelson, "Cartoon Network," W (May 2013), p. 52 (Green

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 34

    "The King of Kitsch: Jeff Koons," (Text in Korean) Trans Trend Magazine, Summer 2014 (color ill. p. 2; color ill. p. 8) (Blue)

    Hal Foster, "At the Whitney," London Review of Books 36, no. 15 (July 31, 2014)

    Jason Schmidt, "Home is where Art is," InStyle, September 2014 (color ill. p. 682) (Green)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 82) (Blue)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 149 (color ill. p. 148 (color ill. p. 148, fig. 6, Neue Nationalgalerie installation, Yellow; color ill. p. 149, fig. 10, Victoria and Albert Museum installation) (Pink)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 156 (color ill. p. 156, fig. 6, Neue Nationalgalerie installation, Yellow; color ill. p. 157, fig. 10, Victoria and Albert Museum installation) (Pink)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 223, 224 (color ill. p. 224, Blue; color ill. p. 228 MCA Chicago, Yellow)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 223, 224 (color ill. p. 224; color ill. p. 224, Blue; color ill. p. 228 MCA Chicago, Yellow)

    Remember Everything – 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, eds. Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais, exh. cat. (Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2014) p. 119 (color ill. p. 121, work at foundry) (Blue)

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014) (color ill. p. 110-111, Pinchuk Art Centre installation) (Blue)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 158, 159 (color ill. p. 159, fig. 10, Victoria and Albert Museum, Pink; color ill. p. 158, fig. 6, Neue Nationalgalerie installation, Yellow)

    "Wandering Between Worlds," Böllinghaus Steel Stories Magazin V, March 2016 (Pink)

    Joachim Jager, Constanze von Marlin, Andre Odier, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 2018) (color ill. p. 244) (Yellow)

    Tanya Klich, "Jeff Koons on Collaborating with Bernardaud to Produce $21,000 Limited-Edition Porcelain Versions of His Iconic ‘Diamond’ Sculpture," Forbes, December 11, 2020 (color ill. Christie's New York) (Blue) https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaklich/2020/12/11/jeff-koons-bernardaud-porcelain-diamond-21000-dollar-neiman-marcus-interview/?ss=watches&sh=199b522a60ac

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) pp. 27, 56 (color ill. p. 27) (Red)

    Akari Koyanagi, ""Jeff Koons x Bernardaud" will be held at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa!" Elle Decor (Japan), April 30, 2022 https://www.elle.com/jp/decor/decor-interior-design/a39769335/jeffkoons-bernardaud-exhibition-2022-04/

Cat on a Clothesline
1994–2001

polyethylene
123 x 110 x 50 inches 
312.4 x 279.4 x 127 cm 

5 unique versions (Blue, Yellow, Aqua, Orange, Red)

  • Santa Monica, Broad Art Foundation, The Broad Art Foundation Collection, October 6, 2001 – August 13, 2004 (Blue)

    Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, March 16, 2002 – June 3, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 28, 2002 – October 20, 2002; Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao, February 15, 2003 – September 7, 2003 (Blue)

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 8, 2009 (Blue)

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13 – October 2, 2012 (Aqua)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (Blue)

    Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, Jeff Koons, October 6 – November 17, 2012 (Blue) 

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014, (Aqua)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (Yellow)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (Yellow)

    New York, FLAG Art Foundation, Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, January 20 – May 14, 2016 (Red)

  • David Rimanelli, “Jeff Koons, A Studio Visit: It’s My Party,” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997), pp. 112, (color ill. p. 113, work in progress at studio)

    Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons Ingenieur du desir," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (France), September 1997, p. 43 (color ill., p. 43, work in progress at studio)

    Judd Tully, "Deconstructing Jeffrey," Art & Auction, December 1998, p. 43

    Stephanie Barron, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), p. 191

    Christine Temin, "A blur of life and art with Jeff Koons at MFA," Boston Globe, July 24, 2002, pp. F1 (ill. p. F1, MFA installation)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 153.

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2007, (color ill. p. 432, work in progress),(color ill. p. 433). (Blue)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German), Vanity Fair (Germany), no. 46 (November 2008), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45, Neue Nationalgalerie installation).  b

    Michael Posch, "Kult und mythos - ein Festival der Kunst," Berliner Morgenpost, 2008, (color ill. p. III). (Blue)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 31, 93 (Blue)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German), Vanity Fair, November 2008, (color ill. p.45, detail) (Blue) 

    "Symbols in the Story," Vogue Japan, no. 125 (January 2010) (color ill. p. 23) (Blue)

    Peter Richter, “I ♥Jeff Koons,” BMW Magazine, Autumn 2010 (color ill. p. 53) (Blue)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011), p. 140 (Blue)

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday, June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012 (color ill. Fondation Beyler installation) (Aqua)

    Andrea Chin, "Jeff Koons at the Beyeler Foundation part 2," Designboom, June 29, 2012 https://www.designboom.com/art/jeff-koons-at-the-beyeler-foundation-part-2/

    Monopol: Special Jeff Koons. 2012, Translations by Jeremy Gaines and John Lambert, (color ill. p. 15) (Blue)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012) (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz publishers, 2012), pp. 32, 33, 35, 134, 182, 183, 204 (color ill. p. 135) (Aqua)

    Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012) pp. 68, 74, 80 (color ill. p. 74, fig. 6) (Blue)

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 10, 14, 153, 190 (color ill. p. 152) (Blue)

    Louisa Buck, "All the fun of the Frieze Art Fair," The Telegraph (UK), October 18, 2013, online (color ill. online, Frieze Art Fair installation) (Yellow)

    Miranda Sawyer, "Frieze Art Fair 2013 – review," The Guardian, October 19, 2013, online (color ill., Frieze Art Fair installation) (Yellow)

    Joachim Pissarro, Jeff Koons: Almine Rech Gallery (Brussels: Almine Rech, 2013) title p. 34; (color ill. p. 30; color ill. p. 32; color ill. p. 35) (Blue) 

    Rachel Campbell-Johnston, "Divide and Rule," and "Pop Eye Wars," (Text in Korean) Harper's Bazaar (Korea) (April 2014) (color ill. p. 87) (Blue)

    RuthieFriedlander, "Jeff Koons on 3D Printing, Selfies, and Cats," Elle, June 25, 2014, online (color ill, detail of Whitney installation) (Aqua)

    Ben Davis, “Jeff Koons as the Art World’s Great White Hope,” Artnet, June 26, 2014, online (color ill., Whitney Retrospective installation) (Aqua)

    Scott Indrisek, "All Aboard That 'Great Koonsian Adventure'," Artinfo, June 26, 2014, online

    Bill Cunningham, “On the Street: Big Bloom,” The New York Times, June 29, 2014, ST4 and online June 27, 2014 (color ill., Whitney Retrospective installation detail) (Aqua)

    Nina Stoller-Lindsey, "Jeff Konns's Science Projects," The Atlantic, July 17, 2014 (color ill.) (Blue) https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/the-science-behind-the-art-of-jeff-koons/374614/

    David Everitt Howe, "Jeff Koons A Retrospective," ArtReview (September 2014) (color ill. p. 178 Whitney installation) (Aqua)

    Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill. p. 315 Whitney installation) (Aqua)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012, (October 2014) (color ill., cover; color ill. p. 5) (Aqua)

    William S. Smith, "Introduction: Identity Crisis," Art in America, October 2014, pp. 6, 108-113 (color ill., advertisement)

    Luther Blissett, “La jouissance du retour en enfance,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 49 (Yellow)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 137, 235, 288 (color ill. p. 137, pl. 81; color ill. p. 168, fig. 2, works in progress)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 145, 246,300 (color ill. p. 145, pl. 81) (Yellow) 

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014) p. 37 (color ill. p. 37) (Yellow)

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), pp. 52, 56 (color ill. p. 52, Fondation Beyeler installation) (Aqua)

    Hili Perlson, "Jeff Koons Triples Production Capacity at His Giant Stone-Cutting Facility, Antiquity Stone, in Pennsylvania," Artnet News, March 3, 2015 (color ill. by Hypebeast Frieze London installation) (Yellow)

    Marco Enrico Giacometti, “Arriva al Guggenheim di Bilbao la monumentale retrospettiva di Jeff Koons. Tante foto dalla preview della mostra che apre al pubblico questa settimana,” Artribune, June 8, 2015 (color ill. Guggenheim Bilbao installation) (Yellow) https://www.artribune.com/tribnews/2015/06/arriva-al-guggenheim-di-bilbao-la-monumentale-retrospettiva-di-jeff-koons-tante-foto-dalla-preview-della-mostra-che-apre-al-pubblico-questa-settimana/

    "Jeff Koons: High art or plain extravagance?" Al Jazeera, August 22, 2015 (Aqua)

    Laura Brown, "Women Who Dare: Justine Koons," Harper's Bazaar, November 2015, p. 282

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 147, 247 (Blue), 300 (Yellow), (color ill. p. 147, pl. 82, yellow version), (Blue and yellow)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), pp. 61, 588 (color ill. p. 61) (Aqua)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 103 (color ill. p. 103) (Yellow)

    Almine Rech Gallery Newsletter 17, January-May 2016 (color ill. p. 62, Guggenheim Bilbao installation) (Yellow) 

    "Editors' Picks: 12 Art Events to See in New York This Week," Artnet News, April 18, 2016 (color ill.) (Red)

    Glenn Fuhrman, "In Conversation: Jeff Koons and Glenn Fuhrman," Gagosian Now, May 12, 2016

    Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2016, pp. 122-125, The FLAG Foundation: Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray (color ill. p. 124, installation view) (Red)

    Diana Cosmin, "louis Vuitton colaboreaza cu cel mai bine cotat artist contemporan, Jeff Koons," Fine Society (Romania), April 12, 2017 https://finesociety.ro/jeff-koons-si-louis-vuitton/

    Alice Newell-Hanson, "The Sculptor Making Massive, Moldy Fruits From Gemstones," The New York Times, November 29, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/t-magazine/kathleen-ryan-artist.html

    Francesc Miró, "De un vaso de agua por 20.000 euros a una calavera de diamantes: los pecados del arte contemporáneo y sus pecadores," El Diario (Spain), February 2, 2021 (color ill. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014)https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/arte/vaso-agua-calavera-diamantes-pecados-arte-contemporaneo-pecadores_1_7164610.html

    "Jeff Koons: highest paid artist in the world," Floraviva (Italy), April 14, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.floraviva.it/news/arte-verde/jeff-koons-l-artista-piu-pagato-al-mondo.html

    Pietro Mini, "a dialogue with artist jeff koons: trust in yourself!," Designboom, September 28, 2021 https://www.designboom.com/art/dialogue-artist-jeff-koons-trust-in-yourself-09-28-2021/

    Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2021), p. 98

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 177, work in progress at studio)


    Tatjana Seel, "King of Kitsch," Monsieur, Summer 2022 (color ill. p. 32, Neue Nationgalerie installation view) (Blue)

    DB Burkeman, The Unbelievably Fantastic Artists’ Sticker Book (China: Blurring Books, 2024), p. 50 (color ill. p. 12) (Aqua)

    Cat, eds. Hannah Shaw and Leïla Jarbousai (London: Phaidon, 2026), pp. 91, 226 (color ill. p. 91) (Aqua)

Hanging Heart
1994–2006

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
114 5/8 x 110 1/4 x 40 inches
291 x 280 x 101.5 cm
height of ribbon varies

5 unique versions (Red/Gold, Magenta/Gold, Blue/Silver, Violet/Gold, Gold/Magenta)

  • Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 'Where are We Going?': Selections from the François Pinault Collection, April 30 – October 1, 2006 (Red/Gold)

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, The François Pinault Collection – A Post-Pop Selection, November 11, 2006 – March 11, 2007 (Red/Gold)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (Blue/Silver)

    Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (Red/Gold)

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 8, 2009 (Violet/Gold)

    Moscow, The Garage, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation, March 19 – June 14, 2009 (Red/Gold)

    Venice, Punta della Dogana, In Praise of Doubt, April 9, 2011 – December 31, 2012, p. 243, illustrated in color (Red/Gold)

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13 – October 2, 2012 (Gold/Magenta)

    Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, ArtLovers. Stories of Art in the Pinault Collection, July 12 – September 7, 2014 (Red/Gold)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (Violet/Gold exhibited, Gold/Magenta illustrated in catalogue)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (Red/Gold)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, May – September 29, 2019 (Red/Gold)

    Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 19 – October 18, 2021 (Red/Gold)

  • Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, exh. cat. (Berlin, 2000), p. 50 (color ill. p. 50, studio shot of model) (Red/Gold)

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons", W 29, no. 4 (April 2000) (color ill., p. 399, sculpture in progress)

    Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, no. 54 (April 2003) (color ill. p. 48, work in production)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), p. 28

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 71 (color ill. p. 71, model/work in progress at studio)

    Monument to Now, ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 234, (color ill. p. 234) (Red/Gold)

    Richard Dorment, "Triumph of a Tycoon," Telegraph, February 5, 2006 (Red/Gold)

    Alan Riding, "The Debut of Pinault's Coveted Art Collection, Originally Bound for Paris," The New York Times, May 1, 2006 (Red/Gold)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paradis, no. 1 (Summer 2006) (color ill. p. 24) (Red/Gold)

    Marcia E. Vetrocq, "A Museum of His Own," Art in America (October 2006), p. 99 (color ill. p. 96, Palazzo Grassi installation) (Red/Gold)

    Alison M. Gingeras and Jack Bankowsky, eds., Where are We Going?: Selections from the François Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Venice, Italy: Palazzo Grassi, 2006), pp. 27 (color ill. pp. 28-29, work in progress)

    La collezione François Pinault: Una selezione Post-Pop (Milan: Skira, 2006), (color ill. p. cover; color ill., back cover, color ill. installation view) (Red/Gold)

    Cecilia Bezzan, "Jeff Koons a propos du marché de l'art," L'art Meme, January 2007, (color ill. p. 12)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons' World", Taschen, May 2007 (color ill. p. 14)

    Carol Vogel, "Telltale Art. New to the Block or Shopped Around, Fall Offerings Test the Market's Strength," The New York Times, July 7, 2006 (color ill. p. Arts 1) (Magenta/Gold)

    Cécilia Bezzan, “Jeff Koons: A propos du marché de l’art.” L’art meme (Brussels), n. 34, 1st Trimester 2007, 11(Red/Gold)

    Linda Yablonsky, "The Studio System," Art+Auction, (November 2007), pp. cover, 192-199 (Magenta/Gold)

    Christian Saehrendt and Steen T. Kittl, "Das Kann Ich Auch: Kannst du Nicht, Gebrauchsanweisung Fur Moderne Kunst" (Germany: Dumont, 2007) (ill. p. 89) (Magenta/Gold)

    Vicky Ward, "François Pinault's Ultimate Luxury," Vanity Fair, no. 568 (December 2007), p. 230 (color ill., detail Palazzo Grassi installation); (Red/Gold)

    David Ebony, "Fall Auction Totals Soar to Nearly $2 Billion," Art in America, January 2008, p. 37 (color ill. p. 37) (Red/Gold)

    Matthew Simmons, "Art Star," Lifestyles Magazine, Winter 2008, p. 22 (color ill. p. 22) (Red/Gold)

    James Panero, “An Old Master in Ruins,” New York, March 31, 2008, pp. 30-35, 91 (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold)

    John Varoli, "New Kids on the Block," Art+Auction, March 2008, p. 126 (color ill. p. 126) (Magenta/Gold )

    Olav Velthuis, "Accounting for Taste," Artforum, April 2008, pp. 304-309

    Christian von Faber-Castell, "Beratung ist die halbe Miete," Weltkunst, Kunst&Geld (Germany), May 2008, p. 10 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 10) (Red/Gold)

    Susan Stamberg, "Jeff Koons Has a 'Ta-Da' Moment in Chicago," NPR, Morning Edition, July 25, 2008 (color ill.) (Red/Gold)

    Sarah Douglas, "Larry Gagosian and the art of the deal" in The Economist, Spring 2008, p. 107 (Magenta/Gold)

    Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons" in art actuel, no. 57, July/August 2008, p. 70 (color ill. p. 70) (Blue)

    Valerie DuPonchelle, "Toute la planete reunie a Versailles pour Jeff Koons" in Le Figaro (2nd version), September 10, 2008, p. 2 (color ill. p. 2, Versailles installation) (Red/Gold)

    Raphael Morata, "Jeff Koons au chateau de Versailles" in Point de Vue, September 17, 2008, p. 65, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Red/Gold)

    Catherine Schwaab, "Art contemporain: la Folie n'a plus de prix," Match, Paris, September 25, 2008, p. 82 (color ill. p. 82) (Red/Gold)

    Kulturpur, September 2008-July 2009, illustrated in color on the cover (Purple/Gold)

    Francois Monnin, "Jeff Koons une star a Versailles" in la Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot, no. 37, October 31, 2008, p. 232, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Red/Gold)

    Michael Houellebecq, "Jeff Koons" in Art World, issue 7, October/November 2008, p. 33, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, Red/Gold)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German) Vanity Fair, November 2008 (color ill. pp. 40-41, Neue Nationalgalerie installation; color ill. cover, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Violet/Gold)

    Emmanuelle LeQueux, "petites frayeurs et gros benefices" in BC/BE Contemporary, Winter 2008, p. 58, illustrated in color (Magenta/Gold)

    Francesco Bonami, "Jeff Koons" in Panorama First, no. 4, 2008, pp. 117, illustrated (Red/Gold)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 85, 115 (color ill. p. 85) (Blue/Silver)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2008, p. 399, illustrated in color (Red/Gold)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008) pp. 85, 115 (color ill. p. 85) (Blue/Silver)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 31, 37, 43, 46, 74, 99, 107 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 75, Violet/Gold) (Magenta/Gold

    Liat Clark, "Pop Art Popeye," Matchbox, July 2009, p. 56 (color ill. p. 56)(Red/Gold,  Palazzo Grassi installation)

    "Feature: Gagosian Gallery," ppaper business, September 2009, no. 8 (color ill. cover) (Blue)

    Christian Saehrendt and Steen T. Kittl, Gebrauchsanweisung fur Moderne Kunst, Cologne 2009, p. 83, illustrated (Magenta)

    Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (Milan: Skira Editore, 2009, pp.67, 145 (color ill.) (Red/Gold)

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 9, 11, 92 187, 162 (color ill. p. 93, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 94, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 95, detail; color ill. p. 162)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist (foreword and conversation), Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, eds. Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, 2009), pp. 51, 77 (color ill. p. 51) (Red/Gold)

    Marybeth Sollins, ed., art: 21 (Dalton, Massachusetts, 2009), p. 99 (color ill. p. 99) (Red/Gold)

    Steven Henry Madoff, "Beauty and Glass after Duchamp," in Glass: Trends in Contemporary Glass Sculpture (Tel Aviv, 2009), p. 33 (color ill. p. 33, Versailles installation) (Red/Gold)

    David Colman, "Jeff Koons," Interview, December/January 2009, pp. 118-123, 201(color ill. p. 120) (Red/Gold)  

    James Gurney, “Gurney’s Guide to Art and Watches: An A to Z of High Art and High Watchmaking,” Vanity Fair on Time, October 2010 (color ill. p. 24) 

    Valerie Duponchelle, “Jeff Koons, quand l’art fait son show,” Le Figaro, October 29, 2010, p. 16 ( (color ill. p. 16) (Red/Gold)

    Lydia Schmid, “Jeff Koons,” Elle (Germany), May 2011, p. 141 (color ill. p. 141, Versailles installation) (Red/Gold)

    Andreas Tölke, "Gleichgewicht der Kräfte," Build, March 2011 (color ill. p. 53, Palazzo Grassi installation) (Red/Gold)

    "Jeff Koons Desire of Love," Monthly Joong-ang, August 2011, p. 336 (color ill. p. 336) (Red/Gold)

    Wolfgang Ullrich, An die Kunst glauben (Berlin, Wagenbach, 2011) (ill. p. 105) (Magenta/Gold)

    In Praise of Doubt, exh. cat. (Venice: Palazzo Grassi and Mondadori Electa, 2011), pp. 242-243 (color ill. pp. 242-243) (Red/Gold)

    "Immaculate Collection," Stylist (London), August 29, 2012, pp. 66, 70 (color ill. p. 66) (Red/Gold)

    Artinside (text in German), 2012 (color ill. p. 17) (Magenta/Gold)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Conversation Series 22: Jeff Koons (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012), p. 31 (ill. p. 31 Palazzo Grassi, Venice installation)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 132, 204, 208 (color ill. p. 133, Gold/Magenta; color ill. p. 132, Red/Gold)


    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 18, 19, 23, 29, 35 (color ill. p. 18, fig. 1,) (Red/Gold)

    Carlotta Loverini Botta, "Koons at the Fondation Beyeler," Vogue (Italy), June 15, 2012 (color ill.) (Gold/Magenta)

    Carl Swanson, "The Age of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, May 13, 2013, pp. 29, 85 (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold)

    Christina Passariello, "Collect It Like You Mean It," WSJ Magazine 36 (June 2013), p. 63 (color ill. p. 63) (Red/Gold)

    Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill.p. 314) (Violet/Gold)

    Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, “The Words,” Garage Magazine, Fall/Winter 2014, p. 89  (Red/Gold)

    Philippe Dagen, "Dr. Jeff et Mr. Koons," Le Magazine du Monde, November 2014, n.p. (color ill., installation shot) (Red/Gold)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 151, 302 (color ill. p. 151, pl. 86) (Gold/Magenta)

    Art Lovers: Stories of Art in the Pinault Collection, ed. Martin Bethenod, exh. cat. (Paris: Lien Art /Grimaldi Forum, 2014), pp. 14, 26, 40, 41, 49, 51, 106-107, 118 (Red/Gold)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 149, 300 (color ill. p. 149, pl. 85) (Red/Gold)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), 1994-2006: p. 36, 58, 59 (color ill. p. 36, Red/Gold) (Magenta/Gold) (Red/Gold)

    Hanging Heart (Red/Gold), 1994-2006: p. 36 (color ill. p. 36)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (China: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 31 (Red/Gold)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014) (color ill. p. 31, Palazzo Grassi Installation) (Red/Gold)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 151, 302 (color ill. p. 151, pl. 86) (Gold/Magenta)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), pp. 155 (Magenta/Gold), 157 (Magenta/Gold) (color ill. p. 105, Red/Gold)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 58

    Mon cœur qui bat: 60 poèmes de l'Antiquité à nos jours (Barcelona: CPI, 2016), p. 69

    Jake Nevins, "Jeff Koons 'I Think I'll Always Keep Feeling Somewhat Like An Outsider," The Guardian (UK), March 9, 2018 (color ill. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) (Violet/Gold) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/09/jeff-koons-i-think-ill-always-keep-feeling-somewhat-like-an-outsider

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National d l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/

    Annette Lin, "Why Jeff Koons is a Natural Successor to Marcel Duchamp," Artsy, May 20, 2019, online.

    Rosalia Souza, "La vida de Jeff Koons entre las polémicas por plagio y las obras más cotizadas," El País (Uruguay), October 20, 2019 (color ill.) (Violet/Gold)  https://www.elpais.com.uy/domingo/vida-jeff-koons-polemicas-plagio-obras-cotizadas.html

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019), p. 212 (color ill. p. 213) (Red/Gold)

    Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019) (color ill. p. 20, Fondation Beyeler installation) (Gold/Magenta)

    Naama Riba, "Artist Jeff Koons to Attend Opening of His Tel Aviv Museum Exhibit," Haaretz (Israel), February 4, 2020 (color ill. Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of Art, New York) (Violet/Gold) https://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium-artist-jeff-koons-to-attend-opening-of-his-tel-aviv-museum-exhibit-1.8496769

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021, pp. 25, 35, 38 (color ill. pp. 36-37) (Red/Gold)

    Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2021) pp. 73, 80, 173 (color ill. pp. 12-13; color ill. p. 81) (Red/Gold)

    Sabine Spindler, "Jeff Koons in München: „Ich möchte, dass mein Publikum seine eigenen Emotionen wahrnimmt," Handelsblatt (Germany), March 31, 2021  (color ill. Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, Italy by Fulvio Orsenigo) (Red/Gold) https://www.handelsblatt.com/arts_und_style/kunstmarkt/kunst-im-xxl-format-jeff-koons-in-muenchen-ich-moechte-dass-mein-publikum-seine-eigenen-emotionen-wahrnimmt-/27056384.html

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021

    Jeon Eun-ji, "Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons," Handmaker (Korea), November 5, 2021 pp. 25, 35, 38, (color ill. pp. 36-37) (Red/Gold) http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11883

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 25, Fondation Beyeler installation) (Gold/Magenta)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

Moon
1995–2000

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
124 x 124 x 40 inches 
315 x 315 x 101.6 cm 

5 unique versions (Light Blue, Light Pink, Silver, Violet, Yellow)

  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, Apocalypse: Beauty & Horror in Contemporary Art, September 23 – December 15, 2000 (Silver)

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003 (Silver) 

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 (Silver)

    Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Translation - The Dakis Joannou Collection, June 23 – September 18, 2005 (Silver)

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 'Where are We Going?': Selections from the François Pinault Collection, April 30 – October 1, 2006 (Light Blue)

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, The François Pinault Collection – A Post-Pop Selection, November 11, 2006 – March 11, 2007 (Light Blue)

    London, Serpentine Gallery, In the Darkest Hour There May Be Light: Works from the Damien Hirst murderme Collection, November 25, 2006 – January 28, 2007 (Yellow) 

    Guggenheim Bilbao, Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, February 9 – June 30, 2007 (Light Pink)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Fractured Figure, September 6, 2007 – July 31, 2008 (Silver)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (Violet)

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 30 – February 8, 2008 (Light Pink)

    Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (Light Blue)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, May 7 – December 31, 2009 (Silver)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Alpha Omega: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, June 16 – December 29, 2010 (Silver)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Investigations of a Dog: Works from the Face Collections, June 22 – October 30, 2011 (Silver)

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13 – October 2, 2012 (Light Pink)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (Light Pink)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (Light Blue)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 - September 27, 2015 (Light Blue)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, May 19 – September 29, 2019 (Light Blue)

    Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 19 – October 18, 2021 (Light Blue)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (Light Pink)

    Paris, Bourse de Commerce, Le monde comme il va, March 20 – September 23, 2024 (Blue)

  • Jeffrey Deitch, Everything that's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat., (Ostfildern: Verlag & Deste Foundation, 1996) (color ill. pp. 164-165 (in progress), 286) (Silver)

    Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett (no. 50/51) December 1997 (ill. pp. 72, in progress; color ill. p. 73)

    Katerina Gregos, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, (Athens: DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, 1999), (color ill. p. 40, in progress) (Silver)

    Easyfun-Etheral, exh. cat., (Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2001), (color ill. p. 26 (fig. 9), installation view, Silver)

    Anselm Wagner, "Einfach Ubertrieben," Frame, January-March 2002, (color ill. p. 80) (Silver)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002, exh. cat., (Kunsthaus Bielefeld, 2002), (color ill. p. 28, installation view) (Silver)

    Monument to Now, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004), pp. 238-239 (Silver)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Koons World," W Magazine, November 2006, pp. 48, 308-319 (color ill.)

    Martin Gayford, "Damien, Art Addict," The Daily Telegraph, November 18, 2006

    Dave Hickey, "Spotlight: Jeff Koons," Vanity Fair, December 2006, p.370 (color ill. p. 370) (Silver)

    Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2006) (color ill. pp. 162-163, Royal Academy installation) (Silver)

    Alison M. Gingeras and Jack Bankowsky, eds., Where are We Going?: Selections from the François Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Venice, Italy: Palazzo Grassi, 2006), p. 249 (Light Blue)

    La collezione François Pinault: Una Selezione Post-Pop, (Milano: Skira, 2006), pp. 32-33 (color ill. p. 32-33, installation) (Light Blue)

    Katia Arfara and Nicolas Bourriad, Translation: A Visual Trip, Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste, 2006) (color ill.)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006) (color ill. p. 67) (Silver)

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 67

    "Jeff Koons: Do Kitsch a Arte," Night & Style, June 2007 (color ill.) (Silver)

    In the Darkest Hour There May Be Light: Damien Hirst, Murderme Collection, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2007) (color ill.) (Silver)

    Susan M. Kirschbaum, “Dakis Joannou’s Secret House of Horrors. Candy for the Mind Under One Roof,” Whitewall, Spring 2008, pp. 98-112 (color ill. p. 109, DESTE installation mock-up) (Silver)

    Valerie Duponchelle, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Provocation ou Revolution?" Le Figaro 19 870 (France), June 19, 2008, p. 28 (Light Blue)

    Raphael Morata, "Jeff Koons au chateau de Versailles," Point de Vue, September 17, 2008, (color ill. p. 62, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Light Blue)

    "Coups de Koons," (Text in French) Femmes (France),September 2008, p. 57

    "Expositions Ile-de-France." Connaissance des Arts September 2008, p. 46, illustrated in color (installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Light Blue)

    Jean-Pierre Frimbois, "Jeff Koons: son Pari a Versailles." Art Actuel (no. 58) September-October 2008, p. 8, illustrated in color (installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Light Blue)

    Laurence Dreyfus, "En Grande Pompe." l'Optimum September 2008, p. 113, illustrated in color (installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Light Blue)


    M.B., "Koons et le pop kitsch a Versailles," Connaissance des Arts, (September 2008), p. 46 (color ill. p. 46, Versailles installation) (Light Blue)

    Kulturpur, September 2008-July 2009, (color ill. p. 16) (Silver)

    Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Provocation ou Revolution?" Paris Capitale (no. 134) September 2008, p. 57, illustrated in color (installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Light Blue)

    Sylvie Lambert, "Jeff Koons," l'Officiel Hommes, Fall-Winter 2008/2009, (color ill. p. 106, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Light Blue)

    Judd Tully, "Artist's Most Wanted," Art + Auction, November 2008, (color ill. p. 187) (Yellow)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008) 86, 115 (color ill. p. 86)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth, (Cologne, 2008), pp. 62 (installation view, Blue), 422 (Silver), 432 (model), (color ill.) 

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), p. 67 (color ill. pp. 66-67, detail) (Light Pink)

    DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, exh. cat. (Athens, 2009) (color ill.)  (Silver)

    Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection [curated by Jeff Koons], (New York: New Museum, 2010), (color ill. p. 17) (Silver)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple: Jeff Koons," 20/27 (no. 05) 2011, (color ill. p. 138 installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Light Blue)

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012

    “Fondation Beyler presents first Jeff Koons exhibition ever held in a Swiss Museum,” artdaily.org, June 20, 2012 (Light Pink) http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55318#.T-h03s0XAr0

    Katherine Brooks, “Jeff Koons - An Artist, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside Shiny Stainless Steel,” HuffingtonPost, June 27, 2014 (color ill., Whitney installation) (Light Pink) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-koons-a-retrospective_n_5538103

    "Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012) (color ill. pp. 97-98, Fondation Beyeler installation) (Light Pink)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 136, 205 (color ill. p. 137) (Light Pink)

    Lorna Hall, "The Whitney Pulls Out All the Stops for Koons," Mind, July 23, 2014 http://www.alumind.com/article/whitney-pulls-stops-koons/

    Karen Garrat, “Jeff Koons: A Hubris Trickster Creating The Visually Grandoise,” Artlyst, July 24, 2014 (color ill.) http://www.artlyst.com/articles/jeff-koons-a-hubris-trickster-creating-the-visuallygrandiose

    Jae-Su Kim, "A Magician of Creation and Destruction," (Text in Japanese) Art in Asia (Japan),August 2014 (color ill.) (Light Pink)

    Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill.p. 318)

    Katya Kazakina, "Oversized $30 Million Koons Monkey Heads to Christie’s," Bloomberg, October 2, 2014 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-13/bacon-s-142-million-triptych-sets-record-in-new-york

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 44, Whitney Retrospective installation, Light Pink; color ill. p. 66, Fondation Beyeler installation, Light Pink; color ill. p. 74, Versailles installation, Light Blue)

    Judicaël Lavrador, “Jeff Koons: génie ou imposteur?” Beaux Arts editions, November 2014, p. 139 (Light Pink)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 148, 233 (color ill. p. 148, fig. 4, works in progress)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 156, 244 (color ill. p. 156, fig. 4, works in progress in studio)

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 239 (color ill. p. 238, Palace of Versailles Installation) (Light Blue)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 239 (color ill. p. 238, Palace of Versailles Installation) (Light Blue)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov. Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition, (France: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 102 (Light Blue)

    Moderna Museet. Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray. Exh. cat., Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014 [Texts by Jack Bankowsky, Thomas E. Crow, Nicholas Cullinan, Made Great, conversation between Michael Fried, Isabelle Graw, Michelle Kuo, Charles Ray, Scott Rothkopf], p. 79 (Silver)

    Marco Enrico Giacometti, “Arriva al Guggenheim di Bilbao la monumentale retrospettiva di Jeff Koons. Tante foto dalla preview della mostra che apre al pubblico questa settimana,” Artribune, June 8, 2015 (color ill. Guggenheim Bilbao installation) (Light Blue)

    Elena Guena, "Jeff Koons," Pinault Collection, no. 3, October 2014-March 2015 (color ill. pp. 40-41) (Light Blue)

    Gagosian Quarterly, September-October 2015 (color ill. p. 93, installation) (Light Blue)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 157, 159, 299 (color ill. p. 157, pl. 93; color ill. p. 159, fig. 13, Chateau de Versailles installation) (Light Blue)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 10 (color ill. p. 11)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015) p. 102 (color ill. p. 102) (Light Blue)

    "Jeff Koons Offers Sculpture to Paris in Memory of 2015 Attack," The Culture Trip (UK), January 23, 2016 

    Almine Rech Gallery Newsletter 17, January-May 2016. (color ill. p. 62, Guggenheim Bilbao installation) (Light Blue)

    Eileen Kinsella, "Jeff Koons Lays Off Over a Dozen Staffers After They Tried to Unionize," Artnet News, July 19, 2016 (color ill. by Timothy A. Clark /AFP) (Light Pink)

    Angela Smith, "All the fun of a day at the art gallery," The Australian (Australia), September 9, 2016 (color ill. Whitney installation view) (Light Pink) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/all-the-fun-of-a-day-at-the-art-gallery/newsstory/360b35d4f578efd208f141a5289d75f3?from=htc_rss

    Paul McQueen, "Jeff Koons Offers Sculpture To Paris in Memory of 2015 Attacks," The Culture Trip, November 23, 2016 (color ill.) (Light Blue)

    Alexis Fournol, Victoria Stapley-Brown, "Centre Pompidou broke even on Koons retrospective, Paris court decision reveals," The Art Newspaper, March 17, 2017 (color ill., installation Centre Pompidou) (Light Blue)

    "Jeff Koons lança coleção de bolsas em parceria com Louis Vuitton," Opovo Online (Brazil), April 11, 2017 (color ill.) https://pause.opovo.com.br/app/lifestyle/2017/04/11/ls,2500/jeff-koons-lancara-colecao-de-bolsas-em-parceria-com-louis-vuitton.shtml

    Diana Cosmin, "louis Vuitton colaboreaza cu cel mai bine cotat artist contemporan, Jeff Koons," Fine Society (Romania), April 12, 2017 https://finesociety.ro/jeff-koons-si-louis-vuitton/

    Kathryn Romeyn, "Jeff Koons Reflects on His Meteoric Art-World Glory," Architectural Digest, May 1, 2017 (color ill.) (Light Pink) https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/jeff-koons-moca-louis-vuitton-gagosian

    Ben Davis, "Time Magazine Says Contemporary Art Is to Blame for Trump. That's Stupid." Artnet News, May 18, 2017 (color ill.) (Light Pink)

    Jake Nevins, "Jeff Koons 'I Think I'll Always Keep Feeling Somewhat Like An Outsider," The Guardian (UK), March 9, 2018 (color ill. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) (Light Pink) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/09/jeff-koons-i-think-ill-always-keep-feeling-somewhat-like-an-outsider

    Frederic Migayrou, Tadao Ando: Le Défi (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2018) (color ill. p. 212, Palazzo Grassi installation) (Light Blue)

    Joachim Jager, Constanze von Marlin, Andre Odier, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 2018) (color ill. 244) (Light Pink)

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National d l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/

    Adriana Góchez, Flores Soto, "Duchamp y Koons Entablan dialogo en apariencia desnuda," La Razón, May 17, 2019, p. 2

    Alondra Flores Soto, "Ofrecen un atisbo unico al mundo de espejos de Koons y Duchamp," La Jornada De Enmedio, May 17, 2019 (color ill. Jumex installation) (Light Blue)

    Lulu Urdapilleta, "Apariencia Desnuda," Máspormás, May 17, 2019, pp. 16-17 (color ill. p. 16, Jumex installation) (Light Blue)

    Stephanie Eckardt, "Is Jeff Koons Our Marcel Duchamp?" W Magazine, May 27, 2019 (color ill.) (Light Blue) https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/jeff-koons-marcel-duchamp-exhibit-museo-jumex-mexico-city/

    "Jeff Koons se defende de críticas à escultura doada a Paris," Correio Do Povo (Portugal), September 30, 2019 https://www.correiodopovo.com.br/arteagenda/jeff-koons-se-defende-de-cr%C3%ADticas-à-escultura-doada-a-paris-1.368981

    Rosalia Souza, "La vida de Jeff Koons entre las polémicas por plagio y las obras más cotizadas," El País (Uruguay), October 20, 2019 (color ill.) https://www.elpais.com.uy/domingo/vida-jeff-koons-polemicas-plagio-obras-cotizadas.html

    Brian Deines, "Jeff Koons’ Repackaged Childhood Grows Up With ‘Bouquet of Tulips’," Medium, November 18, 2019 (color ill.) (Light Pink) https://medium.com/@briandeines/with-bouquet-of-tulips-jeff-koons-repackaged-childhood-grows-up-429e1f87c59d

    Massimiliano Gioni, Apariencia desnuda: El Deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Museo Jumex, 2019) (color ill. p. 8)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019) (title p. 26; color ill. p. 27) (Light Blue)

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019) pp. 23, 29, 84, 124 (color ill. p. 85) (Silver)

    Naama Riba, "Artist Jeff Koons to Attend Opening of His Tel Aviv Museum Exhibit," Haaretz (Israel), February 4, 2020 (color ill., Whitney installation) (Light Pink) https://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium-artist-jeff-koons-to-attend-opening-of-his-tel-aviv-museum-exhibit-1.8496769

    Jonathan Sawyer, "Jeff Koons Explains His Iconic 'Play-Doh' Sculpture: "It's Not for Perfectionism," Highsnobiety, April 7, 2020 Highsnobiety, April 7, 2020 (color ill., Whitney installation) (Light Pink) https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/jeff-koons-play-doh-sculpture/

    Nelson Galvis, "De los recuerdos," Correo del Caroni (Venezuela), January 16, 2021 (color ill. Whitney installation) (Light Pink) https://www.correodelcaroni.com/opinion/8128-de-los-recuerdos

    "Jeff Koons Moves to Pace Gallery, and Other News," Surface Magazine, April 28, 2021 (color ill. Whitney Museum of American Art, June, 2014 by Timothy A. Clary) (Light Pink) https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/jeff-koons-pace-gallery/

    Rose Maria Gropp, "Jeff Koons hat eine neue Galerie," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), April 30, 2021 (color ill. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, 2015) (Light Blue) https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunstmarkt/der-teuerste-lebende-kuenstler-jeff-koons-hat-eine-neue-galerie-17318851.html

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021, p. 22, (color ill. p. 20) (Light Blue)

    Camille Buonanno, "Jeff Koons s’invite au Mucem pour une exposition inédite," AD Magazine (France), May 21, 2021 (color ill. Mucem, France by Laurent Lecat) (Light Blue) https://www.admagazine.fr/art/news/diaporama/jeff-koons-mucem-exposition-inedite/62439

    Camille Buonanno, Marina Hemonet and Laurence Mouillefarine, "South of France: the best cultural outings to do this summer," AD Magazine (France), July 23, 2021 (color ill. Mucem, Marseille, France by Laurent Lecat (Light Blue) https://www.admagazine.fr/adactualites/article/sud-de-la-france-les-meilleures-sorties-culturelles-a-faire-cet-ete-2021

    Panagiotis Koustas, "Wear a work by Jeff Koons, you can," Esquire Greece, October 23, 2021 (color ill. by Timothy Clary, Whitney Museum, 2014) https://esquire.com.gr/styl/moda/17395/fora-ki-esu-ena-ergo-tou-jeff-koons-mporeis

    Jeon Eun-ji, "Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons," Handmaker (Korea), November 5, 2021 (color ill. by Dious) http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11883

    "David Beckham Smits Jeff Koons' Inflatable Statue," Detik Hot (Indonesia), November 22, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) https://hot.detik.com/culture/d-5822123/david-beckham-kepincut-patung-tiup-jeff-koons

    "“Jeff Koons: Lost in America” on view at Qatar Museums," Hypebeast, November 22, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) https://hypebeast.com/art/events/jeff-koons-lost-in-america-on-view-at-qatar-museums

    "Play with Jeff Koons' Giant Inflatable Statue," Detik Hot (Indonesia), November 24, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) https://hot.detik.com/culture/d-5825325/main-main-dengan-patung-tiup-raksasa-jeff-koons

    Dario Pappalardo, "Jeff Koons e gli sceicchi dell'arte," La Repubblica (Italy), November 26, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2021/11/25/news/koons_qatar_arte_doha_mostra-327810772/

    Natasha Gural, "Qatar Celebrates The Unmistakably American Gaze Of Jeff Koons In His First Gulf Region Exhibition," Forbes, November 30, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2021/11/30/qatar-celebrates-the-unmistakably-american-gaze-of-jeff-koons-in-his-first-gulf-region-exhibition/?sh=13acc57a3262

    Song Peifen, ""Lost in America": A Visual Biography of Jeff Koons," The Financial Times Chinese, December 2, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001094695?full=y&archive

    Phyllis Tuchman, "Jeff Koons Looks Back on a Life in the Art World," Town & Country, December 20, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a38528663/jeff-koons-qatar-interview/

    "Things to do this weekend in Qatar (Dec 23 25, 2021)," MENAFN (Jordan), December 22, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink)

    https://menafn.com/1103430755/Things-to-do-this-weekend-in-Qatar-Dec-23-25-2021

    Suroor Khorasani, "Things to do this weekend in Qatar (Dec 30,2021 - Jan 1,2022)," The Peninsula Qatar, December 30, 2021 (color ill., Gallery Al Riwaq, Lost in America installation) (Light Pink) (Light Pink) https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/30/12/2021/things-to-do-this-weekend-in-qatar-dec-302021-jan-12022

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 114 (color ill. p. 115) (Light Pink)

    Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2021), p. 35, 173, (title p. 86; color ill. p. 15; color ill. p. 87) (Light Blue)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 182, Whitney installation; color ill. p. 177, work in progress at studio) (Light Pink)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

    Anna Fehérváry-Ménes, "Zseni vagy szélhámos? Ma 67 éves Jeff Koons, a világ legdrágább élő művésze," Nők Lapja (Hungary), January 21, 2022 (color ill. by Cindy Ord, Gallery Al Riwaq, MIA installation view) (Light Pink) https://www.noklapja.hu/aktualis/2022/01/21/zseni-vagy-szelhamos-ma-67-eves-jeff-koons-a-vilag-legdragabb-elo-muvesze/

    Bianca Brigitte Bonomi, "Jeff Koons in Qatar: The American Artist’s Lost in America Exhibition Is One Not To Be Missed…," Harper's Bazaar Arabia, March 25, 2022 (Light Pink)https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/culture/art/jeff-koons-in-qatar

    "L'artiste Jeff Koons veut envoyer des sculptures sur la Lune," Le Journal de Québec (Canada), March 29, 2022 (Light Pink) https://www.journaldequebec.com/2022/03/29/lartiste-jeff-koons-veut-envoyer-des-sculptures-sur-la-lune

    Razmig Bedirian, "Jeff Koons to send sculptures to the Moon for permanent installation," The National News, March 30, 2022 (Light Pink)  https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/2022/03/30/jeff-koons-to-send-sculptures-to-the-moon-for-permanent-installation/

    Naoko Aono, "Jeff Koons produces the latest BMW Art Car. In Japan, in addition to auctions, special events are also held," Forbes Japan, April 28, 2022 (Light Pink) https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/47150?internal=nav_bv_2

    Jordi Labanda, "Todo lo que odio," El País (Mexico), June 8, 2022 (color ill., Qatar Museum installation view) (Light Pink) https://elpais.com/icon-design/2022-06-08/todo-lo-que-odio.html

    Karen K. Ho, "SpaceX Racket Carrying Jeff Koons's 125 Moon Sculptures Finally Takes Off," ARTnews, February 15, 2024 (Light Pink)

    Stephen Short, "Artist Jeff Koons on moons, balloons and his upcoming Hong Kong exhibition," Prestige, March 14, 2024, p. 6 (color ill. p. 6) (Light Blue)

    Joséphine Bindé, "A la Bourse Pinault, une expo vertigineuse brosse le portrait d'un monde qui ne tourne pas rond," Beaux Arts, April 10, 2024, p. 6 (Light Blue)

    Le monde comme il va, ed. Jean-Marie Gallais, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2024), pp. 100-101 (color ill. p. 100) (Light Blue)

Party Hat
1994–2019

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
99 1/8 x 133 5/8 x 116 5/8 inches
251.8 x 339.4 x 296.2 cm

5 unique versions (Yellow, Pink, Orange, Blue, Turquoise)

Elephant
1995–2000

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating 
150 x 120 x 7 1/8 inches
381 x 304.8 x 18.1 cm

5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Violet, Orange)

  • Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005 (Yellow)

    Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Sculpture, July 20 – August 30, 2006 (Yellow)

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31 – February 8, 2008 (Orange)

  • David Rimanelli, “Jeff Koons, A Studio Visit: It’s My Party,” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997), pp. 115, 116 (color ill. cover, cut-out illustration of work; color ill. p. 114, small-scale working model made from wood and mylar; color ill. p. 114, work in progress at fabricator in Brooklyn)

    Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 78 (color ill. p. 78) (Blue)

    Laurie Attias, "A Kinder, Gentler Koons," ARTnews, no. (March 1998), p. 160

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1999), pp. 32-33 (color ill., Artforum cover)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 99, 100(color ill. p. 98, Private collection installation; color ill. p. 110) (Blue)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 106, 148 (color ill. p. 106) (Yellow)

    Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2006) (color ill. p. 186) (Magenta)

    Jorge S. Arango, "Shock to the System," House & Garden, September 2007, p. 184 (color ill. p. 184) (Magenta)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Taschen: Cologne 2008)\ (color ill p. 414), Blue; color ill. p. 427 Yellow)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German), Vanity Fair (Germany), no. 46 (November 2008) (color ill. pp. 40-41, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) (Orange)

    L. Ruano, “Jeff Koons - Neue Nationalgalerie Exhibition,” Hypebeast, November 19, 2008, illustrated in color (Orange)

    Gabriela Walde, “Jeff Koons trifft in Berlin auf Paul Klee,” Berliner Morgenpost, October 30, 2008, illustrated in color installation photo of Neue Nationalgalerie (Orange)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), p. 68 (color ill. p. 69) (Orange)

    Silvia Karman Cubina, "Labor of Love," Cultured, Fall 2013, cover, pp. 86- Photographs by Douglas Friedman

    “Douglas Friedman Photographs Eugenio Lopez at Home for Cultured,” Cultured, November 7, 2013, (color ill. cover, Eugenio Lopez residence installation, Photo by Douglas Friedman) (Yellow)

    “Collector Eugenio Lopez Alonso Talks Art,” LA Confidential Magazine, June 27, 2014 (color ill.) (Yellow)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 151 (color ill. p. 151, fig. 24, private residence installation) (Yellow)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 159 (color ill. p. 159, fig. 24, private collector installation) (Yellow)

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014) (color ill. p. 127, Greenwich, CT, installation view) (Violet)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 161 (color ill. p. 161, fig. 24, private residence installation) (Yellow) 

    Manuela Lietti, “Latin America’s mega-art collector Eugenio López Alonso and his La Colección Jumex,” Artron.net, March 10, 2015 (color ill.) (Yellow)

    Laurence and Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Volume 1 (Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2017), p. 51 (color ill.) (color ill. p. 51, installation view in residence) (Yellow)

    Hedwig Van Impe, Michael Ray Charles - In The Presence of Light, (Belgium: Cotthem, 2022), p. 49 (Blue)

Sacred Heart
1994–2007

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
140 1/2 x 86 x 47 5/8 inches
356.9 x 218.4 x 121 cm

5 unique versions (Red/Gold, Violet/Gold, Gold/Red, Magenta/Gold, Blue/Magenta)

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jeff Koons on the Roof, April 22 – October 26, 2008 (Red/Gold)

    Kiev, Pinchuk Art Centre, Collection Platform 1: Circulation, May 2 – October 2, 2011 (Gold/Red)

    Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, Jeff Koons, October 6 – November 17, 2012 (Blue/ Magenta)

    Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, All You Need is Love, April 26 – September 1, 2013, p. 25, illustrated in color (Gold/Red)

    Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons, April 27 – August 18, 2017 (Blue/Magenta)

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 – January 31, 2022 (Magenta/Gold)

  • Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 153

    Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons," Art Actuel (no. 57), (July/August 2008), p. 71, (color ill. MET roof installation; color ill. p. 75) (Red/Gold)

    Raphael Morata, "A New York, Jeff Koons Un Artiste Barock," (text in French), Point De Vue (France), August 27-September 2, 2008 (color ill., p. 61, Met Roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    "Jeff Koons: Mickey-l'Ange Contemporain" in Paris Match, September 3, 2008, p. 80, illustrated in color (MET roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    H.G., "Un chien sur un toit brulant," Connaissance des Arts, (September 2008), p. 66

    Matthew Simmons, "Art Star" in Lifestyles Magazine, Winter 2008, p. 26 (color ill. p. 26, MET roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    Henri-Francois Debailleux, “Jeff Koons Interview,” Libération (France), November 30, 2008, (color ill. cover, Versailles installation) (Red/Gold)

    "Power 100," ArtReview 27 (November 2008), p. 108

    Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988)

    Marybeth Sollins, ed., art: 21, Dalton, Massachusetts, 2009, p. 89, illustrated in color (Metropolitan roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 31, 93

    Eileen Kinsella, "Buying the Best of the Best," ARTnews 104, no. 7 (Summer 2009), p. 117 (Red/Gold)

    Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins (New York: Abrams Books/Art21, Inc., 2009) (color ill. p. 89, Met Roof installation background image) (Red/Gold)

    Thomas S. Mulligan, "'Via YouTube, it's the Kalm Report," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2010 (color ill. p. E1, Met installation; color ill. p. E6, Met installation) (Red/Gold)

    Emily Hulme, "Jeff Koons Brightens Up the Roof," amNY, April 25-27, 2008, p. 23 (color ill. p. 23, Roof of the Met installation) (Red/Gold)

    Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan), no. 125, January 2010 (color ill. p. 23, Met Roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    Thomas S. Mulligan, "'Via YouTube, it's the Kalm Report," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2010 (color ill. p. E1, Met installation; color ill. p. E6, Met installation)

    Veronika Hofer and Betsy Pinover Schiff, New York City Gardens (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2010), pp. 196-197 (color ill. pp. 196-197, Metropolitan roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz, "Mister America," (Text in Spanish) Vogue (Espana), (February 2010), (color ill. p. 117, Met Roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    Emma Allen, "Triumph of the Underdog/Jeff Koons Bows out of His Barking-Mad Balloon Dog Dispute," Artinfo, February 4, 2011 (color ill. Met Roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    Lindsay Pollock, "Carlson and Co. shutting its doors," Bloomberg, March 22, 2011, online color ill. Roof of the Met installation, Photo: Anna Marie Kellen) (Red/Gold)

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 29, 35, 37 (color ill. p. 37, fig. 7, Metropolitan Museum of Art installation) (Red/Gold)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 32, 35, 181

    "A Doll in the Museum," (Text in Japanese) Ginza (Japan) 194, August 2013 (color ill., Mori Art Museum installation) (Gold/Red)

    Susan Moore, "Jeff Koons's work is childish — just like us," The Spectator, September 28, 2013 http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/arts-‐feature/9033301/buying-‐a-‐pup/

    Jason Edward Kaufman, "King of Kitsch," Black Card Mag, Fall 2013 (color ill. p. 235, Met Roof installation) (Red/Gold)

    Scott Reyburn, "Koons Leads $2 Billion Art-Market Test for Frieze Weeks," Bloomberg, October 14, 2013 (color ill.) (Blue/Magenta) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-14/koons-leads-2-billion-art-market-test-for-frieze-week

    Daniel Kunitz, "Frieze London: Beauty, Hold the Flash," Artinfo, October 17, 2013 (color ill., Frieze London installation 2013) (Blue/Magenta)

    "Jeff Koons and Larry Gagosian Show Their Love For Frieze," Artlyst, October 18, 2013 (color ill., London's Frieze 2013 installation) (Blue/Magenta) https://www.artlyst.com/news/jeff-koons-and-larry-gagosian-show-their-love-for-frieze/

    Louisa Buck, All the fun for the Frieze Art Fair, The Telegraph, UK, October 18, 2013 (Blue/Magenta)

    Miranda Sawyer, "Frieze Art Fair 2013 – review," The Guardian, October 19, 2013 (Blue/Magenta)

    Nick Cohen, "Why Frieze art fair reflects London all too well," The Guardian, October 19, 2013, online (color ill. online, Frieze Art Fair installation) (Blue/Magenta)

    Neale Whitaker, "Slightly Surreal," Belle (Australia) (November 2013), pp. 77-78 (color ill. p. 78, Met Roof installation, partial view) (Red/Gold)

    Brutus Casa, 10th Anniversary! Roppingi Hills City Guide, 2013 (color ill.) (Gold/Red)

    Joachim Pissarro, Jeff Koons: Almine Rech Gallery (Brussels: Almine Rech, 2013)

    All You Need Is LOVE, from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, exh. cat. (Tokoy: Mori Art Museum, 2013) (color ill. cover, p. 25)

    "The King of Kitsch: Jeff Koons," (Text in Korean) Trans Trend Magazine, Summer 2014

    "Gagosian Gallery Exhibitions," Gagosian, September-October 2014, p. 128 (installation view)

    Anne Breucha, Die Kunst der Postproduktion: Jeff Koons in Seinen interviews (Wilhelm Fink, 2014) (ill. p. 168) (Red/Gold)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 148 (color ill. p. 148, fig. 1, Metropolitan Museum of Art installation) (Red/Gold)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014); p. 156 (color ill. p. 156, fig. 1, Metropolitan Museum of Art installation) (Red/Gold)

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 240 (color ill. p. 241, Metropolitan Museum of Art Installation) (Red/Gold)

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014), p. 115 (color ill. p. 114, Met Roof installation view, Photo: bpk/Metropolitan Museum of Art) (Red/Gold)

    The Israel Museum Magazine, Spring 2015 (color ill. front cover) (Red/Gold)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 158 (color ill. p. 158, fig. 1, Metropolitan Museum of Art installation

    "Wandering Between Worlds," Böllinghaus Steel Stories Magazin V, March 2016 (color ill.)

    Jen Wieczner, Matthew Heimer, "How Steve Cohen Amassed a $1 Billion Art Collection," Fortune, October 22, 2016 (color ill., outdoor installation) (Red/Gold)

    Michael B. Dougherty, Art + NYCA Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists (New York: Museyon Inc., 2016) (color ill. p. 96, Whitney Retrospective installation) (Red/Gold)

    Catherine Womack, "Jeff Koons Isn't Exactly "Woke" — but He Has Other Nice Qualities," LA Weekly, May 2, 2017 (Blue/Magenta)

    Sunshee Grinnell, "Jeff Koons and Kiehl's Bring the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children into the Spotlight," Vanity Fair, May 11, 2017 (color ill.) (Blue/Magenta)

    Jeff Davis, "June Art Column," Pasadena Independent, June 2017 (color ill.) (Blue/Magenta)

    Carol Yu, "Jeff Koons?" Ravenel, no 20 (Spring 2017) (Red/Gold)

    Gagosian Gallery, August 2017 (color ill. p. 13)

    Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian, 2017), pp. 22, 78 (color ill. p. 23; (color ill. pp.24-25, Gagosian installation) (Blue/Magenta)

    Sarah Douglas, "Jeff Koons’s ‘Sacred Heart’ and a Bevy of Alexander Calders Star in 50th Edition of Art Basel Fair, With Early Sales Solid," Artnews, June 11, 2019 (color ill. Gagosian’s booth at Art Basel) (Magenta/Gold) https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/art-basel-2019-sales-report-12760/

    Ted Loos, "Billionaire Art Collectors Live With Koons, Warhol and Basquiat," The New York Times, June 12, 2018 (color ill. Los Angeles) (Blue/Magenta) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/arts/marc-jane-nathanson-art-basel.html

    Stephanie Eckardt, "How Did No One Notice Rihanna at Art Basel?" W Magazine, June 17, 2019, (color ill. Gagosian’s booth at Art Basel) (Magenta/Gold) https://www.wmagazine.com/story/rihanna-art-basel-trip/

    Felix Torkar, Apple Design: EineAnalyse (Apple Design: an Analysis), (Stuttgart: av edition, 2020), p. 49 (color ill. p. 49) (Blue/Magenta)

    Lois Elziere, "A Marseille, une exposition évènement de Jeff Koons au Mucem en 2021," Made in Marseille (France), September 23, 2020 (color ill. Jeff Koons: On the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008) (Red/Gold) https://madeinmarseille.net/75309-exposition-art-contemporain-jeff-koons-mucem/

    Maroine Jit, "L’exposition de Jeff Koons au Mucem se tiendra à partir du 5 mai," Made in Marseille (France), March 4, 2021 (color ill. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) (Red/Gold) https://madeinmarseille.net/88705-mucem-jeff-koons-exposition-musee/

    Anna Brady, "Flight of the Balloon Dog: Jeff Koons leaves Gagosian and David Zwirner galleries for Pace," The Art Newspaper (UK), April 27, 2021 (color ill. by David Owens)
    (Blue/Magenta) https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/flight-of-the-balloon-dog-jeff-koons-leaves-gagosian-and-david-zwirner-galleries-for-pace

    Francesca Pini, "Jeff Koons "Ho Accettato Le Mie Ferite"," Sette Corriere della Sera (Italy), September 24, 2021, online (color ill.) 

    Michela Conoscitore, "Shine di Jeff Koons abbaglia Palazzo Strozzi nel profondo. «Collegare il presente al passato significa continuare a legare le persone alla memoria biologica»," Bon Culture (Italy), October 2, 2021, online 

    "“Shine” di Jeff Koons a Palazzo Strozzi," Report Pistoia (Italy), October 3, 2021, online 

    Lucia Mannella, "Le sculture di Jeff Koons splendono a Palazzo Strozzi," Corriere della Sera (Italy), October 4, 2021 (color ill. Palazzo Strozzi, 2021) (Magenta/Gold)  https://living.corriere.it/tendenze/arte/jeff-koons-palazzo-strozzi/

    Barbara Tassara, "«Jeff Koons. Shine». La mostra al Palazzo Strozzi di Firenze," Panorama (Milan, Italy), October 7, 2021 (color ill. by Ela Bialkowska, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2021) (Magenta/Gold)  https://www.panorama.it/lifestyle/cultura/jeff-koons-shine-mostra-firenze?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

    Jennifer Sauer, "Jeff Koons Debuts His Shiny New Art Exhibition," CR Fashion Book, October 8, 2021 (color ill. by Ela Bialkowska, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2021) (Magenta/Gold)  https://www.crfashionbook.com/culture/a37895591/jeff-koons-art-exhibition/

    "Apre 'Jeff Koons. Shine', grandi sculture e installazioni che ripercorrono 40 anni di carriera dell'artista," 055 Firenze (Italy), October 9, 2021 (color ill. by Ela Bialkowska, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2021) (Magenta/Gold)  https://www.055firenze.it/art/208825/Le-opere-di-Jeff-Koons-atterrano-Firenze-la-nuova-mostra-di-Palazzo-Strozzi#.YVhiabgzaM8

    Marley Galvão, "Jeff Koons opens exhibition with 33 works in Florence," Casa Vogue (Brazil), October 9, 2021, online (color ill.) 

    Alessandra Maggi, "Mostre autunno 2021 in Italia: da Monet a Jeff Koons, da Robert Capa a Salgado, ecco quali visitare," Viaggi Corriere (Italy), October 11, 2021 (color ill. by Ela Bialkowska, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2021) (Magenta/Gold)   https://viaggi.corriere.it/eventi/cards/mostre-autunno-2021-in-italia-da-monet-a-jeff-koons-ecco-quali-visitare/e

    Finn Blythe, “I’m Trying to Become a Vaster Human Being”: Jeff Koons on Life and Art," AnOther (London, UK), October 14, 2021 (color ill. by Sergey Illin) (Magenta/Gold)  https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13648/im-trying-to-become-a-vaster-human-being-jeff-koons-on-life-and-art

    Teresa Macrì, "Jeff Koons, la «luccicanza» del desiderio collettivo," Il Manifesto (Italy), October 14, 2021 2021 (color ill. by Ela Bialkowska, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2021) (Magenta/Gold) https://ilmanifesto.it/jeff-koons-la-luccicanza-del-desiderio-collettivo/

    Marina Santin, "Lo "Shine" Secondo Koons," Daily Luxury (Italy), October 18, 2021, online (color ill.) 

    Harriet Lloyd-Smith, "At home with Jeff Koons," Wallpaper (London, UK), October 22, 2021, online

    Pearl Fontaine, “Jeff Koons Shines at Palazzo Strozzi,” Whitewall, November 1, 2021, online (color ill., installation view) (Magenta/Gold)

    Lucrezia Caliani, "Jeff Koons a Palazzo Strozzi_ no, non lo potevate fare anche voi," FUL Magazine (Italy), November 13, 2021, online(Magenta/Gold)

    Daniel Cisi, "Shine. Le scintillanti opere di Jeff Koons in mostra a Firenze a Palazzo Strozzi," Glitch Magazine (Italy), November 27, 2021, online (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold)

    "Natale al museo: l’agenda per chi ama architettura, arte e design," Corriere della Sera (Italy), December 11, 2021, online (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold)

    Costanza Baldini, "Jeff Koons, il mormone pornografo," Intoscana (Italy), December 18, 2021, online (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold)

    "Palazzo Strozzi: Jeff Koons supera i 100 mila visitatori," Nove da Firenze (Italy), December 19, 2021, online (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold)

    Franco Fanelli, "Jeff Koons, il mormone pornografo," Il Giornale dell'Arte (Italy), December 23, 2021, online (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat. (Venice: Fonadazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 25, 26, 101 (color ill. pp. 100, cat. 14; color ill. p. 187) (Magenta/Gold)

    Laura Benedetti Klein, "Henry Moore Reclining Figure: Arch Leg, 1969-70 (LH 610), (Geneva: Editions Notari, 2021) (color ill. p. 187; color ill. p. 201) (Violet/Gold)

    GianAngelo Pistoia, "Koons, Donatello e Eliasson in mostra a Palazzo Strozzi," La Voce del Nord Est (Italy), January 6, 2022, online (color ill.) 

    "Mostre a Firenze, gennaio 2022: le esposizioni in corso," Il Reporter (Italy), January 12, 2022, online (color ill.) 

    Domenico Sgambati, "Jeff Koons Graffiti, a Palazzo Strozzi," Exibart (Italy), January 15, 2022, online 

    Ambra Sacchi, "L’estetica scintillante di Jeff Koons in mostra a Palazzo Strozzi. Solo tanta pura apparenza?" ArtsLife (Italy), January 17, 2022, online 

    ""L'arte si riflette", incontro online sulla mostra di Jeff Koons a Palazzo Strozzi," Portale Giovanni Firenze (Italy), January 20, 2022, online (color ill.) 

    "Jeff Koons raccontato dai Reel Instagram degli studenti Polimoda," Go News (Italy), January 24, 2022, online

    "“Shine” di Jeff Koons mostra da record con 170mila visitatori e a marzo arriva Donatello," In Toscana (Italy), February 1, 2022, online

    "Maggiolata bella di notte. E Lucignano scrive a Jeff Koons," Arezzo Notizie (Italy), May 25, 2022 (Magenta/Gold) https://www.arezzonotizie.it/attualita/maggiolata-notte-lucignano-jeff-koons.html

    Sarah Hucal, "Artist Jeff Koons to send sculptures to the moon," DW (Germany), March 30, 2022, online (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold) https://www.dw.com/en/artist-jeff-koons-to-send-sculptures-to-the-moon/a-61302275

    Flaminio Gualdoni, Arte Contemporanea - I Protagonisti: 04- Koons, (Italy: Corriere Della Serra, 2022), p. 50 (color ill. p. 51) (Magenta/Gold)

    Vivienne Chow, "By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Evening Art Sales, May 2023," Artnet News, May 30, 2023 (color ill.) (Magenta/Gold) https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/by-the-numbers-a-breakdown-of-results-from-christies-hong-kong-spring-evening-art-sales-may-2023-2311460

Smooth Egg with Bow
1994–2009

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
83 1/2 x 76 5/8 x 62 inches 
212.1 x 194.6 x 157.5 cm 

5 unique versions (Blue/Magenta, Magenta/Violet, Magenta/Orange, Red/Yellow, Silver/Red)

  • Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, March 2017 – ongoing (Magenta/Violet) 

    London, Moco Museum London, Inaugural collection exhibition, Summer 2024 (Magenta/Orange)

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 404 (color ill. p. 404) (Blue/Magenta)

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014) (color ill. p. 115, installation view, photo: Charles Grave) (Blue/Magenta)

    Hana Bank Membership Magazine 2014 Summer Vol. 114 pp. 4, 5 (Blue/Magenta illustrated in color)

    "The King of Kitsch: Jeff Koons," (Text in Korean) Trans Trend Magazine, Summer 2014 (color ill. p. 4) (Blue/Magenta)

    Jae-Su Kim, "A Magician of Creation and Destruction," (Text in Japanese) Art in Asia (Japan),August 2014 (color ill.) (Blue/Magenta)

    Tory Burch, Tory Burch: In Color, Harry N. Abrams 2014, p. 100 (Blue/Magenta, illustrated in color)

    "One of the most influential works in the history of contemporary art," Christie's, April 29, 2016 (color ill.) (Magenta/Violet)

    Dwayne Butcher, "Jeff Koons Piece on View at the Dixon," Memphis Flyer, March 10, 2017 https://www.memphisflyer.com/jeff-koons-piece-on-view-at-the-dixon

    "Koons's Smooth Egg Is Set to Dazzle at Art Basel Miami Beach Next Week," ArtFix Daily, November 28, 2018 (color ill.) (Magenta/Orange)  https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/7100-koonss-smooth-egg-is-set-to-dazzle-at-art-basel-miami-beach-next-

    Melanie Gerlis, "Will Jeff Koons fare better in Miami?" Financial Times, November 30, 2018 (color ill.) (Magenta/Orange) https://www.ft.com/content/92bbd882-f2f6-11e8-938a-543765795f99

    Nate Freeman, "How to Buy at Art Basel in Miami Beach on a Budget," Artsy, November 30, 2018 (color ill. Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art LLC, Art Basel Miami, 2018) (Magenta/Orange)  https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-buy-art-basel-miami-beach-budget

    Margaret Carrigan, "The tax man cometh: new laws on sales tax pose problems for US art dealers," The Art Newspaper, December 5, 2018 (color ill. Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art LLC, Art Basel Miami, 2018) (Magenta/Orange) https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/the-tax-man-cometh

    "Art Basel Miami - Highlights From The Best Art Galleries," I Lobo You, December 12, 2018 (color ill., Art Basel Miami installation view) (Magenta/Orange) https://www.iloboyou.com/art-basel-miami-highlights-from-best-art-galleries/

    Nate Freeman, "Why Jeff Koons's Rabbit Could Sell for up to $70 Million," Artsy, April 19, 2019 (color ill.) (Magenta/Orange) https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-jeff-koonss-rabbit-sell-70-million

    Akane Naniwa, "Twirl the ribbon into arts," Numéro Tokyo (Japan), November 2021 (color ill. by Charles Tait Grave)

Tulips
1995-2004

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
80 x 180 x 205 inches
203.2 x 457.2 x 520.7 cm

5 unique versions

  • Hannover, Nord/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Bank, 2004 – 2012

    Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, February 17 – May 13, 2007

    Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Inaugural Installation, February 16 – September 30, 2008

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao, Tulips, 2008 – ongoing 

    Beijing, U.S. Embassy Beijing, Landscapes of the Mind, August 8, 2008 – ongoing

    Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 31, 2008 – February 8, 2009

    Venice, Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner Della Regina, June 4 – October 2, 2011

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May 13 – September 2, 2012

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015

    Milano, Fondazione Prada, Torre: Atlas, April 20, 2018 – ongoing

  • Ingrid Sischy, "The Cat is Out of the Bag," Interview, February 1997 (color ill. pp. 90-91, illustration of work in progress at studio)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001 (color ill. pp. 234-235)

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002) (color ill. p. 49, work in progress) 

    Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview,April 2003, p. 53

    Giancarlo Politi, "An Interview by the Readers of Flash Art," Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (January-February 2005), p. 3 (color ill. NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation in Gagosian advertisement, Photo by Ulrich Reinecke)

    Kelly Devine Thomas, "The Selling of Jeff Koons," ARTnews 104, no. 5 (May 2005) (back cover, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation, Photo by Ulrich Reinecke)

    Wendy E. Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, December 10, 2005, p. A12 (ill., p. A12, models of tulips)

    Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2006), p. 164 (Broad Collection)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006) (color ill. pp. 68-69)

    Tatjana Rosenstein, “Bad Boy der Kunstszene,” Artinvestor, no. 3 (June 2006), pp. 50-58 (color ill.)

    Anouchka Roggeman and Karen Wright, “Koons on Koons,” Modern Painters, June 2006, (color ill. p. 19, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Germany installation)

    Ulrich Krempel and Anke Schneider, Hinter Glas Das Kunstengagement der NORD/LB (Hannover: NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank, 2007), pp. 49, 52, 194, (color ill. cover, NORD/LB Germany installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007) (color ill. pp. 414-415, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Sebastian Egenhofer, John Gray, Gudrun Inboden, and Herbert Molderings, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, ed. Eckhard Schneider, exh. cat. (Bregenz: Kunstaus Bregenz, 2007), p. 15, 123, 124, 144, 161, 172 (color ill. pp. 108-109, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation; color ill. pp. 124-125, detail) 

    Christa Dietrich, “Eben hineinstolpern ins Glück,” Vorarlberger Nachrichten (Austria), February 17, 2007, pp. A1, D7 (color ill. p. A1, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Hans-Joachim Müller, “Immer schon kuhl bleiben: Hirst, Merz, Koons: ‘Re-Object’ im Kunsthaus Bregenz,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mittwoch, no. 44 (February 21, 2007) (color ill. p. 37, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Eva Karcher, "Uberwal-Tigende Resonanz," Text in German, Kunsthaus Bregenz: 10 Jahre (Germany), July 6, 2007 (ill. pp. B16-C1, detail, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Jessica L. Darraby, "Koons Collector: Eli Broad," Art and Living 7 (Summer 2007), p. 48

    Rumi Fukasaku, “From Bilbao: Blooming in Guggenheim,” Casa Brutus, October 2007, p. 27 (color ill. p. 27, Guggenheim Bilbao installation)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 4, 31, 93 (color ill. pp. 2-3; color ill. pp. 4-5, detail; color ill. p. 8, detail)

    Armelle Malevoisin, "Top 4 des oeuvres les plus cheres," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008 (color ill. p. 65, Germany installation)

    Judith Benhamou-Huet, "Le top 10 artistes les plus chers de la planete," Le Point FIAC special edition, 2008 (color ill. cover, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Laura Moure Cecchini, "Jeff Koons: La estetizacion del consumismo," Textofilia Revista de Literatura y Arte, no. 17 (Mexico)m, (2008) (color ill. pp. 60-61)

    Luther Blissett, "Les obsessions majeures de Koons," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008 (color ill. p. 11, Bregenz installation)

    Virginia Shore, Landscapes of the Mind, Collection of the United State Embassy, Beijing, China, 2008, (ill. p. 19)

    Jason Edward Kaufman, “Contemporary Art “To Connect” to China,” Art Newspaper, May 2008, pp. 1, 5

    Michael Duncan, “Report from Los Angeles: LACMA Sizes Up,” Art in America, no. 5 (May 2008), p. 69

    Sarah Thornton, "The Recipe for a record price,” The Art Newspaper, no. 191 (May 2008) (p. 44, Beijing installation)

    Jane Ure-Smith, "Banality That Bites," Financial Times, June 2, 2008, online (color ill., Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon and Emanuelle Lequeux Interview in "Jeff Koons: Versailles," Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008 (color ill. p. 19, Germany installation)

    Judith Benhamou-Huet, "Le roi du kitsch trone a Versailles," Le Point, no. 1877, September 4, 2008 (color ill. p. 9, Bregenz installation)

    Norbert Bisky, “Koons: Was macht die Kunst?” (text in German), Vanity Fair (Germany), no. 46 (November 2008) (color ill. pp. 40-41, Neue Nationalgalerie installation)

    Matthew Simmons, "Art Star," Lifestyles Magazine, Winter 2008 (color ill. p. 29, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Virginia Shore, "West Meets East, Art Inspired by Nature Graces New Beijing Embassy," U.S. Department of State Magazine, Beijing, Issue 530 (January 2009) (color ill. p. 12, Beijing installation)

    Jonathan Blyth, "Architectural Beacon, New Embassy Blends Chinese Themes with High-Tech Design," U.S. Department of State Magazine, Beijing, Issue 531 (February 2009) (color ill. p. 10, Beijing installation)

    Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, 2009) (color ill. p. 227, Guggenheim Bilbao installation)

    “Austria: Art + Architecture + Design: Vorarlberg Eyes on the Future,” ARTnews, October 2009 (color ill. p. 73, Kunshaus Bregenz installation)

    Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan), no. 125, January 2010 (color ill. p. 22, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    "Designer's It List," Vogue Japan, no. 125 (January 2010) (color ill. p. 239, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Yayoi Kojima, “Art Tells Style,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan), no. 143, May 2010 (color ill. p. 289, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Sarah Brown “Kiehl’s Goes Koons,” Vogue, October 2010 (color ill. p. 224, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 8 (color ill. p. 8, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Fondazione Prada - Ca' Corner della Regina, exh. cat., ed., Germano Celant (Venice: Fondazione Prada, 2011) (color ill. pp. 100-101; color ill. p. 262, installation rendering of Tulips)

    Jorg Reckhenrich, Martin Kupp and Jamie Anderson, "Made in Heaven - produced on Earth: Creative Leadership as Art of Projection," Journal of Business Strategy 32, no. 4 (2011), (ill. p. 21, Kunsthaus Bregenz Re-Object installation)

    Massimo Gaggi, "Jeff Koons: arte ed eros," Corriere Della Sera Style Magazine, 2011, p. 62

    “The Color of Our Thoughts,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan), no. 143, July 2011, p. 105 (color ill. p. 105, Fondation Beyeler installation; color ill, pp. 223-224, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    "Humor Looking & Learning," SchoolArts, November 2011 (color ill., NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Roland Flamini, "Using Art for Diplomacy: A Vibrant State Department Program Reaches 50," The Washington Times, December 11, 2011 (color ill., Beijing U.S. Embassy installation) https://art.state.gov/portfolio/using-art-for-diplomacy-a-vibrant-state-department-program-reaches-50/

    The Broad Foundations Entrepreneurship for the Public Good 2011-2012 (Los Angeles: The Broad Art Foundations, 2012) (color ill. p. 147, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation view).

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz publishers, 2012), pp. 34, 146, 182, 205 (color ill. pp. 148-149)

    Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, "U.S. Giant Jeff Koons," Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012 (color ill. p. 76, Neue Nationalgalerie installation)

    L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday, June 14, 2012," Art Observed, June 14, 2012, online (color ill. detail)

    George Pendle, "Jeff Koons Welcome to the Funhouse," The American Visual Arts in China, Summer/Fall 2012 (color ill. p. 34, U.S. Embassy in Beijing installation, Photo: Matthew Niederhausser; color ill. pp. 41-42, Beijing U.S. Embassy installation, Photo: Matthew Niederhausser)

    "Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012) (color ill. p. 101, Fondation Beyeler installation)

    Jeff Koons, "Salvador Dali," Monopol Magazine (Germany), November 2012 (color ill. p. 30)

    Kelly Crow, "Giddy Highlights for Contemporary Art," The Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2012 (color ill. D6, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Belinda Luscombe, "10 Questions," TIME Magazine, November 29, 2012), online, (color ill. Christie's installation) (color ill. Beijing U.S. Embassy Embassy installation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkRALSJUvw&list=SL

    Mike Boehm, "Hillary Clinton will give five artists medals for embassy art," Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2012 (color ill., Beijing U.S. Embassy installation)

    Belinda Luscombe, "10 Questions," TIME Magazine (December 10, 2012), p. 68

    Isabelle Lefort, "Jeff Koons Un Américain à Beaubourg," (Text in French) La Tribune & Moi, no. 29 (December 14, 2012) (color ill., NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Helge Achenbach, The Art Agitator--On Collecting and Hunting (Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2013) (color ill. p. 207, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Hannover installation)

    Stephanie Bringezu, Daniel Kramer, Janine Schmutz, What is Art? 27 Questions, 27 Answers (Fondation Beyeler, Hatje Cantz, 2013) (color ill. p. 128-129, detail)

    Carol Vogel, "Record Prices, and Some Duds," The New York Times, January 31, 2013, online

    "Wynn Las Vegas Unveils Tulips by Renowned Artist Jeff Koons," International Business Times, January 31, 2013, online

    Cedar Pasori, "A Time-Lapse of Jeff Koons' 'Tulips' Sculpture Being Assembled at the Wynn Las Vegas," Complex, February 2, 2013 (color ill., Wynn Las Vegas installation), video

    Karanvir Singh, "Jeff Koons $33.6M Sculptural Masterpiece Tulips illuminates the Wynn Theater rotunda at Wynn Las Vegas," Born Rich, February 2, 2013 (color ill., Wynn Las Vegas installation)

    Tom Cooper, "Wynn Las Vegas Unveils The $33.6M Tulips Sculpture by Jeff Koons," Elite Daily, February 5, 2013, online (color ill., Wynn Las Vegas installation)

    "Artists as Ambassadors," JuxtaPositions Maryland Institute College of Art, April-May Summer 2013, (color ill. p. 5, Beijing installation)

    Carol Swanson, "The Age of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, May 13, 2013, p. 29 (color ill., p. 29 Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Jennifer Kamm, "Haute 100; 100 of the Most Powerful People in NYC," Haute Living, August/September 2013, p. 62

    Jason Edward Kaufman, "King of Kitsch," Black Card Mag, Fall 2013, pp. 234, 239 (color ill. p. 233, detail with painting; color ill. p. 231, Neue Nationalgalerie installation; color ill. p. 234 Beijing installation)

    Steve King, "Portrait of an Artist," Vanity Fair (November 2013), p. 39

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 148, 224, 235 (color ill. p. 148, fig. 5, Norddeutsche Landesbank installation; color ill. p. 150, fig. 14, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 156, 158, 233, 246 (color ill. p. 156, fig. 5, Norddeutsche Landesbank installation; color ill. p. 158, fig. 14, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Jeff Koons: Split-Rocker, ed. Alison McDonald, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 34

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 84, 88, 151 (color ill. p. 88, Nord/LB Bank Installation; color ill. p. 152-153, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 84, 88, 151 (color ill. p. 88, Nord/LB Bank Installation; color ill. p. 152-153, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Frank Martin, Así Somos! (France: Éditions Belin, 2014) (color ill. p. 128, Guggenheim Bilbao installation)

    "Jeff Koons Talks Bronzes at the Frick Thursday Night," Gallerist, April 23, 2014 (color ill., Christie's installation). http://galleristny.com/2014/04/jeff-koons-talks-bronzes-at-the-frick-thursday-night/

    Matt Black, "Jeff Koons’ Philosophy of Perfection," Reflections, NOWNESS, June 16, 2014(color ill. video, Broad collection)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 81)

    Jamie Wetherbe, "Lady Gaga unveils Jeff Koons-designed 'Artpop' album art," Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2014 (color ill., online) 

    Armelle Malvoisin, “Top 4 des œuvres les plus chères,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 65

    Luther Blissett, "Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d’artiste,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014 (color ill. p. 11, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Myriam Boutoulle, "Jeff Koons, a star in Paris," (Text in French) Connaissance des Arts (December 2014), p. 70

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 60 (color ill. p. 60, Norddeutsche Landesbank Installation), p. 61

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 8, 154, 158, 236, 247, 300 (color ill. p. 154, pl. 90; color ill. p. 158, fig. 5, Norddeutsche Landesbank installation; color ill. p. 160, fig. 14, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), p. 89 (color ill. p. 22-23, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery, 2015), p. 14

    "Jeff Koons: High art or plain extravagance?" Al Jazeera, August 22, 2015 (color ill., video, Prada collection) https://www.aljazeera.com/program/talk-to-al-jazeera/2015/8/22/jeff-koons-high-art-or-plain-extravagance

    The Broad Foundations Entrepreneurship for the Public Good 2015-2016 (Los Angeles: The Broad Art Foundations, 2016), p. 100

    Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie's (New York/London: Phaidon Press, 2016), pp. 85, 86-7

    Bollinghaus Steel Stories Magazin V, March 2016 (cover, color ill.)

    Deborah Vankin, "MOCA names its spring gala honoree: Jeff Koons," Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-moca-gala-jeff-koons-20170306-story.html

    Carmen Oster, "Der letzte Schrei: Jeff Koons entwirft Taschen für Louis Vuitton," Kleine Zeitung (Austria), April 11, 2017 (color ill. online, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation) https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kultur/5199609/Paris_Der-letzte-Schrei_Jeff-Koons-entwirft-Taschen-fuer-Louis

    Marcin Brzeziński, "Sensacja! Louis Vuitton tworzy kolekcję z jednym najbardziej znanych współczesnych artystów Jeffem Koonsem!" Viva (Poland), April 11, 2017 (color ill., detail. Christie's installation) https://viva.pl/moda/wielcy-projektanci/louis-vuitton-stworzy-kolekcje-z-jeffem-koonsem-110118-r1/

    Sally Williams, "Jeff Koons on his 'wild years'... and going from penniless to the world's most expensive artist," The Telegraph (UK), April 20, 2017 (color ill., Christie's installation) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/womens-style/louis-vuitton-announces-jeff-koons-collaboration/

    Laura Coll, "C’est le bouquet ! Les tulipes de Jeff Koons débarquent sur les Champs-Élysées !...," Paris Secret (France), August 27, 2019 (color ill., Guggenheim Bilbao installation) https://parissecret.com/cest-le-bouquet-les-tulipes-de-jeff-koons-debarquent-sur-les-champs-elysees/

    Joachim Jager, Constanze von Marlin, Andre Odier, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 2018) (color ill pp. 246-247, Neue Nationalgalerie installation) 

    Fionnuala McHugh, "Hong Kong-bound artist Sarah Morris, showing in Beijing, talks about films and the Olympics," South China Morning Post (China), March 24, 2018 (color ill., Guggenheim Bilbao installation) https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2139608/hong-kong-bound-artist-sarah-morris-showing-beijing-talks

    Adam Morgan, "Wynn Resorts Limited artwork to remain in Macau casinos," World Casino News, April 11, 2018 https://news.worldcasinodirectory.com/wynn-resorts-limited-artwork-to-remain-in-macau-casinos-54565

    Luisa Zargani, "Fondazione Prada in Milan Completed with Opening of Torre," WWD, April 18, 2018 (color ill. Prada Foundation, Milan, installation) https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/fondazione-prada-milan-completed-with-opening-of-torre-1202654380/

    "Dentro la Torre di Fondazione Prada a Milano. Le fotografie delle opere e dello spazio," Arts Life (Italy), May 2, 2018 (color ill. Prada Foundation, Milan, installation) https://artslife.com/2018/05/02/dentro-la-torre-di-fondazione-prada-a-milano-le-fotografie-delle-opere-e-dello-spazio/

    Leila Salimbeni, "Apre Torre, il ristorante di Fondazione Prada a Milano," Vanity Fair (Italy), May 9, 2018 (color ill. Prada Foundation, Milan) https://www.vanityfair.it/vanityfood/ristoranti/2018/05/09/ristorante-torre-prada-milano-come-si-mangia

    Michael Kimmelman, "Shape-Shifting Art Tower Completes Prada’s City Within a City," The New York Times, June 15, 2018 (color ill. Prada Foundation, Milan, installation) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/arts/design/prada-foundation-rem-koolhaas-oma-miuccia.html

    Meghan Watson-Donald, "Inside Fondazione Prada’s New Milan Space, Torre," DuJour, Summer 2018, (color ill. pp. 113-114)

    Soledad Bravi, Ceci N'est Pas Un Tableau (Paris: Leduc.s Editions, 2019), pp. 29, 125

    Carmen R. Pinos, "48 Horas en Bilbao," Elle (Spain), January 28, 2020 (color ill., Guggenheim Bilbao installation) https://www.elle.com/es/living/viajes/a30512434/bilbao-que-ver-hacer-dos-dias/

    Sibel Soriano, "Banksy, Kaws, Jeff Koons y más, juntos en esta exposición virtual," Donde (Mexico), May 19, 2020 (color ill., Kunsthaus Bregenz installation) https://www.diarioamanecer.com.mx/banksy-kaws-jeff-koons-y-mas-juntos-en-esta-exposicion-virtual/

    "I Tulips di Koons mettono radici a Parigi, finalmente," Exibart (Italy), September 20, 2019 (color ill., Guggenheim Bilbao installation) https://www.exibart.com/attualita/i-tulips-di-koons-mettono-radici-a-parigi-finalmente/

    Jessica Stewart, "Jeff Koons Becomes Living Artist with Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold," My Modern Met, May 21, 2019 (color ill., Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin) https://mymodernmet.com/jeff-koons-expensive-living-artist/

    "Le 10 sculture più costose mai vendute," Metalli Rari (Italy), November 9, 2019 (color ill., Guggenheim Bilbao installation) http://www.metallirari.com/10-sculture-piu-costose-vendute/

    "Christie's New York art sale sets post-war contemporary record," BBC Culture (UK), November 15, 2019, online (color ill., Christie's installation)

    Anna Fornaciari, "Fondazione Prada Milano: All the Advice For Your Visit," Travel on Art, January 15, 2020 (color ill. Fondazione Prada, Milano, installation) https://www.travelonart.com/arte-contemporanea/fondazione-prada-milano-consigli-visita/

    Anastasia Fontanesi, "Who is Jeff Koons and What are his most famous works?" Travel on Art (Italy), January 19, 2020 (color ill., Guggenheim Bilbao installation) https://www.travelonart.com/arte-contemporanea/jeff-koons-chi-e-opere-famose/

    Manon Garrigues, "Jeff Koons: où admirer ses œuvres les plus folles?" Vogue France, January 21, 2020 (color ill. Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation) https://www.vogue.fr/culture/article/jeff-koons-oeuvres-art

    "Jeff Koons: "The purpose of art is to eliminate anxiety," Investory News (Ukraine), July 28, 2020 (color ill. online, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation) https://investory.news/dzheff-kuns-meta-mistectva-usunennya-trivogi/

    Emma Taggart, "Here are six Jeff Koons artworks that showcase how his artistic practice evolved over the years," My Modern Met, September 13, 2020 (color ill. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin) https://mymodernmet.com/jeff-koons-art/

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021), pp. 25, 107, 118, 252 (color ill. pp. 124-125)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), p. 181

    Annette Rubesamen, "Mailand, das Manhattan Italiens," Brigitte (Germany), February 20, 2021 (color ill. by Florian Rainer, Prada Foundation, Milan, ltaly) https://www.brigitte.de/leben/reise/mailand--eine-stadt-fuer-alles-12260774.html

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts editions, May 2021 (color ill. p. 16, Kunshaus Bregenz installation)

    John Horn, "The Broad Museum Is Set to Reopen with a Commitment to Diversity," LAist, May 17, 2021, (color ill. online, Broad installation by John Horn) https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/the-broad-museum-is-set-to-reopen-with-a-commitment-to-diversity

    Zhang Hong, "The most beautiful Internet celebrity museum in South Canada has world-class artworks and free admission," World Journal, August 12, 2021 (color ill. video footage Broad installation) https://www.worldjournal.com/wj/story/121471/5670652

    María Teresa Andrès, "Jeff Koons el artista que mejor conoce (y usa) las reglas del marketing," MDZ Magazine (Argentina), August 15, 2021 (color ill. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, October 29, 2008) https://www.mdzol.com/cultura/2021/8/15/jeff-koons-el-artista-que-mejor-conoce-y-usa-las-reglas-del-marketing-179736.html

    Pietro Mini, "a dialogue with artist jeff koons: trust in yourself!" Designboom, September 28, 2021, online (color ill., Fondation Beyeler installation) https://www.designboom.com/art/dialogue-artist-jeff-koons-trust-in-yourself-09-28-2021/

    Günter Kolb and Mario Singer, "SturmNetz im Baskenland," Sturmnetz (Austria), November 4, 2021, online (color ill. Guggenheim Bilbao installation) https://www.sturmnetz.at/sturmnetz-im-baskenland/

Play-Doh
1994–2014

polychromed aluminum
124 x 152 1/4 x 137 inches
315 x 386.7 x 348 cm

5 unique versions

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